Word: gurneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point during A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, Andy comments, "Letters are a way of presenting yourself in the best possible light." Although few playwrights consider letters as a way of presenting drama "in the best possible light," A.R. Gurney proves that one can make an exciting play based solely on letters...
This style of indirect conversation works because Gurney's script is so strong. He keeps the relationship of Andrew and Melissa exciting, touching and humorous by never lingering too long on one subject. The script keeps the audience engaged because it moves along quickly. At one point Andrew says to Melissa, "Mother said you were going to get married." She responds...
...Gurney has moved from lacerating the Wasp world he came from (The Dining Room, The Middle Ages) to exploring his own guilts in this pair of pieces about the disquiets and discontents of his generation. The Old Boy laments unthinking bigotry toward homosexuals. The Snow Ball yearns for bygone male authority and apparent female contentment with...
...Gurney has moved from lacerating the Wasp world he came from (The Dining Room, The Middle Ages) to exploring his own guilts in this pair of pieces about the disquiets and discontents of his generation. The Old Boy laments unthinking bigotry toward homosexuals. The Snow Ball yearns for bygone male authority and apparent female contentment with...
...Crimson recently spoke with Amy Cabranes, an accomplished comedic director whose Harvard credits include Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy, Clare Booth Luce's The Women, A.R. Gurney, Jr.'s Scenes from American Life and Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Cabranes shared some of her views on Lysistrata, theater, comedy and women in positions of authority...