2025-2026 LHSTC Season

Virginia Hascall’s Durang/Durang is a one‑evening revue of six irreverent one‑act parodies—Mrs. Sorken, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, A Stye of the Eye, Nina in the Morning, Wanda’s Visit, and Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room”—that skewers revered playwrights and theatrical conventions with Durang’s razor‑sharp wit. Through absurdist humor, meta‑theatrical gags and a healthy dose of black‑comedy neuroticism—from 1950s melodrama tropes to existential clowning—the compilation spotlights Durang’s trademark irreverence while exposing the hidden anxieties at the heart of dramatic art.

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Virginia Hascall leaves her home and fiancé to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, where she and five fellow trainees endure rigorous flight and ground training—learning to confront the literal “decision height,” the critical altitude at which a pilot must choose to land or bail out—as they forge bonds of sisterhood amid the pressures of World War II. Against the backdrop of patriotic duty and personal sacrifice, the women grapple with loss—both of loved ones overseas and comrades in training—and ultimately unite for a final ferry mission that cements their solidarity and shines a light on the largely unrecognized contributions of the WASPs to the war effort

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Eighteen‑year‑old Eugene Morris Jerome is drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II and sent to basic training at Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he keeps a wry journal of the camp’s drills, latrine duty, and mess‑hall mishaps while pursuing his goals of losing his virginity, surviving the war, and becoming a writer. Under the brutal discipline of Sergeant Merwin J. Toomey and alongside recruits like the principled Arnold Epstein—who famously makes Toomey do two hundred push‑ups—Eugene and his platoon forge bonds of camaraderie and confront prejudice, emerging from training with a sharper sense of self and solidarity.

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