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...forgotten) turned instinctively to using home life as the basis for satire. At prep school, he won a prize for a story about his family, called Buffalo Meat. After graduating from Williams College and touring South America and Asia in "a stint as a wild man in the Navy," Gurney went to the Yale School of Drama. "My whole family came there in trepidation to see my play Love in Buffalo, and left in relief that the revelations were not worse. But after that, whenever something of mine was staged, they pretty much stayed away...
...funniest scenes in Gurney's The Dining Room depicts a pathetically senile matriarch who interrupts Thanksgiving dinner at her own table to announce that it is time for her to get up and go home. Says Gurney's uncle, Buffalo Physician Ramsdell Gurney: "My mother did exactly what Peter had her do in that play. To see her portrayed that way saddened me, but the audience thought it was terribly amusing." The most striking parallel in Gurney's plays to his life is the marriage between the young lovers' parents in The Middle Ages: four years...
...Gurney's own marriage has lasted half his life and has produced four children (the two youngest are in college). He has taught literature for 23 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Last year, gambling on the success of The Dining Room, he took a sabbatical and moved to Manhattan to be closer to theater life. This year he stayed on leave, put his Massachusetts home up for sale, and bought an Upper West Side apartment. Next year he will commute to M.I.T. Says he: "I have discovered that I need to be here during the rehearsal process...
...sometime novelist (Entertaining Strangers, The Gospel According to Joe) and television scriptwriter (an adaptation for PBS of the John Cheever story O Youth and Beauty!), Gurney is writing a play that he hopes will take on bigger and more tragic proportions than his 16 slight, mostly short stage works to date. Says he: "When I start writing a script, it always seems serious. But some how the pratfalls sneak in, and then I fight to keep them." His upbringing, he believes, has provided more than simply the raw material of his scripts: "I think it was the very fact that...