oskar cy westbridge

Baby With the Bathwater is a dark comedy about society's failure to raise a child.

I was 17 when I directed this play.

 

At the time, I had just encountered Grotowski's work through his book Towards a Poor Theater, and I was enraptured with the idea of exploring the live elements of theater that could not be found in film. Another major inspiration was the Jan Svankmajer's film Alice, which I found hilarious, beautiful, and terrifying. I saw all of those same elements in Durang's writing, and I'm still fascinated by them today.