Baby with the Bathwater

Ground UP Productions presents Baby with the Bathwater, a scorching family satire from three-time Obie Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang. Kevin Connell directs.

Baby with the Bathwater is a wickedly funny comedy of manners. Eccentric couple John and Helen Dingleberry are unprepared for the rigors of childrearing. When they bring their newborn baby home, they have no idea what to do when the child cries or even what gender the baby is. An outrageous Nanny and clueless school principal only make things worse. As Daisy Dingleberry grows from a young child into a confused man, he confronts his unconventional childhood and tries to establish his own identity. Can he possibly figure it all out?

When Baby with the Bathwater premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 1983, the New Yorker called Mr. Durang “one of the funniest dramatists alive” and the New York Times raved that Durang “conquers bitterness and finds a way to turn rage into comedy that is redemptive as well as funny.”