Word: gurneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although Gurney does not quite achieve his goal of writing a forceful political play, he does successfully challenge the constraints of the medium of the play...
Another target of Gurney's comic attack is George Bush. Peggy gives a speech that Clinton campaign advisors would have loved. But like the Cole Porter songs, the speech would be good in another context, but it does not jibe well with the rest of the play...
...talk with Harvard students sponsored by Harvard's Office for the Arts, Gurney said he was trying to make a political statement with The Fourth Wall...
When asked what he was trying to do with Peggy's speech, Gurney replied that it was a "slash across the canvas." But the slash does not come across as a bold political statement; rather, it jars the feeling of the play...
...program, Gurney writes, "I myself have been writing plays of one kind or another for almost forty years, and more and more I find myself prowling around this cell I have put myself in, testing its possibilities, and at least pretending to cherish its restrictions...