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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
A. R. Gurney
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Sylvia
A stray mutt named Sylvia has a strong impact on a young couple at a critical turning point in their lives.
The Snow Ball
A middle-aged man's attempts to preserve his own romantic notions about WASP society. The Snow Ball is both humorous and sentimental, a triumph for any play about the blandest segment of modern civilization.
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
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...
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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
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Love & Money
Determined to donate almost everything she owns before her life of grace and privilege ends, wealthy widow Cornelia Cunningham’s plan hits a snag when an ambitious and ingratiating young man arrives to claim his alleged inheritance. Renowned playwright A.R. Gurney paints an incisive and hysterical portrait of the trials of class, family, legacy, race, and the power of a good story.
