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The Snow Ball
Characteristic of Gurney's inimitable style of intertwining the present with the past, this lovely play (set primarily in the elegant ballroom of the old George Washington Hotel and performed to recorded music) poses a most poignant question: Is recapturing the qualities of grace, beauty, and cibility too painful for today's society; when charm and elegance no longer seem desirable or important? For one fleeting winter's night, Cooper Jones reunites a group of old...
The Golden Age
THE STORY: The play takes place in a once elegant townhouse in Manhattan, the home of Isabel Hastings Hoyt, an aging but still charming recluse who had been a glittering figure in the literary salons of the 1920s. Now short of money, Mrs. Hoyt is c
Big Bill
BIG BILL captures tennis player William Tilden's turbulent life in a series of scenes that shift back and forth in time. Performed on a set that resembles a tennis arena, the play illuminates the sportsman's distinguished career, extravagant style, personal travails, and, ultimately, his calamitous downfall. A fascinating look at the glory of sport, the power of fame, and the anguish of being an outcast. "BIG BILL is one of A R Gurney's most affecting plays. When Gurney began writing in the early '70s - the era of Rabe, Babe and Bullins - playwrights were supposed to do quasi-Marxist screeds. His portraits of WASP America seemed out of synch until the early '80s, when THE DINING ROOM made pe...
The Dining Room
THE STORY: The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes--s
The Fourth Wall
THE STORY: Peggy has redecorated the living room and her husband, Roger, can't stand it. Peggy's usual exquisite taste was overcome by a mysterious lapse which caused her to redo the room as if it were a stage set. Everything faces one wall, the f
Love Letters
Traces epistolary romance from grade school through middle age.
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The Middle Ages
THE STORY: The action takes place in the trophy room of a rather stuffy men's club in a midwestern city. As the play begins we meet Barney, the son of the club president, as a teenager--and already a rebel against the WASP-ish virtues so dear to his
Office Hours
THE STORY: Out with the old and in with the new. Across college campuses in the '70s, teachers and students engaged in a battle of their own--making education relevant. OFFICE HOURS tackles the Great Books curriculum and puts dead white men to the t
Sylvia
A stray mutt named Sylvia has a strong impact on a young couple at a critical turning point in their lives.
