Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play consists of a series of overlapping vignettes, each of which takes place in a different dining room with a new set of WASP inhabitants. In smooth succession, Gurney presents all sorts of table settings: a kindergarten birthday bash complete with ice cream, a tense mother-daughter talk, and a pitch to granddad for prep school tuition money made by a politic young man, to name...
...ensemble acting, and a few scenes are especially energized by individual performances. At the play's start, Pier Carlo Talenti creates a despicable, but hardly cartoonish, disciplinarian dad. And in the more leisurely paced second act, Eric Oleson is stirring as a father far out of touch with his daughter's "very complicated" generation...
Holly Cate is impressive in the role of manipulative mother, warning her less-confident daughter (Rebecca Clark) against missing the first meeting of the Junior Assemblies. "Once you miss," she coldly scolds, "you never catch up." Cate also manages well in one of the play's few non-WASP roles. As a teenaged friend of Sarah (Caroline Bicks), she proclaims the dining room "wicked nice...
...classes and seminars on magic and the occult in its windows. Or make a pilgrimage to the home of witchcraft in the United States, Salem, which is just an hour's drive to the north, and visit Crow Haven Corner, an occult store run by Laurie Cabot's daughter...
...report describes specific cases of hunger in America, such as a malnourished baby surviving on rice and beans in Houston and a Minnesota man who was "unable to provide a meal at his daughter's wedding...