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A.R. Gurney
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

A.R. Gurney

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sylvia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

Sylvia

A stray mutt named Sylvia has a strong impact on a young couple at a critical turning point in their lives.

Office Hours
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 60

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

Love Letters and Two Other Plays
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Love Letters and Two Other Plays

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990-09
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  • Publisher: Plume

Love Letters traces the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner. The story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written--and what is left unsaid--in their letters. Two other thematically related plays by Gurney, The Golden Age and What I Did Last Summer, are also included.

Later Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Later Life

THE STORY: Austin has spent his entire life convinced that something terrible is bound to happen to him. One night, at a party, overlooking Boston harbor, he has the pleasure of rekindling a romance begun almost thirty years ago with Ruth. Now a mu

What I Did Last Summer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 76

What I Did Last Summer

THE STORY: The setting is a well-to-do vacation colony on the shores of Lake Erie, the time 1945, during the final stages of World War II. Charlie, an incipiently rebellious fourteen-year-old, is summering with his mother and sister (his father is

A.R. Gurney
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

A.R. Gurney

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-03-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.R. Gurney, a major contemporary American playwright who has written over thirty plays, including Love Letters. This volume brings together original interviews with Gurney and four actors and a director who have worked closely with him, as well as essays by leading theater scholars on the range of Gurney's work.

The Old Boy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

The Old Boy

THE STORY: Sam, a successful politician and diplomat, is invited to speak at the dedication of a new building named for his old school friend, Perry, and paid for by Perry's wealthy mother. The knowledge that Perry died of AIDS galvanizes Sam as me

The Cocktail Hour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

The Cocktail Hour

THE STORY: The time is the mid '70s, the place a city in upstate New York. John, a playwright, returns to his family's house, bringing with him a new play which he has written about them. His purpose is to obtain their permission to proceed with pr

Love & Money
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 49

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.