In the curtain raiser to [Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You], The Actor's Nightmare—a standard Durang parody pastiche which, against my better judgment, I often found funny—the baffled protagonist talks about having been an altar boy and about all the people he knows who went to Catholic school; he adds, almost as an afterthought, "I don't know any Catholic adults." Sister Mary Ignatius explains why. I can imagine a devastating comedy about the worst aspects of Catholic education, c. 1950, but Durang is more cartoonist than comedian. His Sister Mary Ignatius … is pure caricature, and often very funny in the early sections of the play when she answers, edits, or ignores questions that have presumably been handed in by the audience. The scenes with the little boy are less successful whether she is surreptitiously fondling him or rewarding him with cookies for knowing his catechism...