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The Dining Room
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 3m
The Dining Room
by A.R. Gurney
Three men and three women portray a wide, diverse range of characters - from little boys to grandfathers, from giggling girls to housemaids - in this brilliantly structured play which enjoyed a very successful run off-Broadway and was given its British première at Greenwich Theatre in 1983.
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Cast Size
3w, 3m -
Target Audience
Appropriate for All Audiences
Details
Summary
Three men and three women portray a wide, diverse range of characters - from little boys to grandfathers, from giggling girls to housemaids - in this brilliantly structured play which enjoyed a very successful run off-Broadway and was given its British première at Greenwich Theatre in 1983. The action takes place in an upper middle-class American dining-room, the hub of social family life, comprising a mosaic of interrelated scenes, sometimes funny, sometimes touching, sometimes rueful, which together create a profound study of the decaying mores of the American WASP.
Keywords
- Time Period Contemporary
- Setting A dining-room
- Cautions
- No Special Cautions
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
A.R. Gurney
A.R. (“Pete”) Gurney was born in 1930 in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Williams College in 1952, served as an officer in the Navy, and afterwards attended the Yale School of Drama. For many years, he taught literature at M.I.T., but moved to New York in 1982 to devote ...
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