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DORSET â Dorset Theatre Festivalâs 44th season opens July 9 with a revival of Christopher Durangâs comedy âLaughing Wildâ outdoors at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Directed by the Festivalâs resident artist, Jade King Carroll, the play will star Dan Butler (âFrasierâ), who starred in the Festivalâs 2019 hit âSlow Food,â and five-time Festival performer and 2020 Drama Desk Award-winner Mary Bacon (âCoal Country,â Dorsetâs âMrs. Christieâ).
âLaughing Wildâ is a hilarious blast-from-the-1980s comedy by Christopher Durang, whom the New Yorker called âone of the funniest men in the world.â The play, in three parts, stars a man and a woman struggling to cope with life in modern America. Over the course of two monologues and a chance meeting inside of a dream, the characters take on everything from the supermarket to nu