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A. R. Gurney (1930–2017)

Autore di The Dining Room

76+ opere 1,224 membri 22 recensioni 3 preferito

Sull'Autore

Albert Ramsdell Gurney was born in Buffalo, New York on November 1, 1930. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, served for several years as an officer in the Navy, and then enrolled in the playwriting program at the Yale School of Drama. After graduation, he taught English at a mostra altro private school and then joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught American literature and the humanities until the early 1980s. He was a prolific playwright and an author. His plays included The Dining Room, The Middle Ages, The Cocktail Hour, The Perfect Party, Another Antigone, Love Letters, The Old Boy, Later Life, Labor Day, Far East, Sylvia, The Fourth Wall, O Jerusalem, Mrs. Farnsworth, Screen Play, and Post Mortem. His novels included The Gospel According to Joe, Entertaining Strangers, and The Snow Ball. He died on June 13, 2017 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

Serie

Opere di A. R. Gurney

The Dining Room (1982) 183 copie
Love Letters (1989) 125 copie
Sylvia (1636) 94 copie
The Cocktail Hour. (1988) 61 copie
Another Antigone (1752) 58 copie
The Perfect Party. (1986) 39 copie
Later Life (1994) 39 copie
The Snow Ball (1985) 36 copie
Sweet Sue (1966) 32 copie
The Old Boy (1992) 29 copie
Scenes From American Life (1970) 24 copie
What I Did Last Summer. (1983) 22 copie
Children (1975) 14 copie
The Golden Age. (1984) 12 copie
Far East (1999) 10 copie
The Wayside Motor Inn. (1978) 10 copie
The Middle Ages (1978) 10 copie
Entertaining strangers (1977) 9 copie
the love Course (1969) 9 copie
Human Events (2001) 9 copie
The Golden Fleece (2002) 7 copie
Mrs Farnsworth (2004) 6 copie
Family Furniture (2014) 6 copie
The Comeback (1965) 5 copie
O Jerusalem (2003) 5 copie
Crazy Mary (2007) 4 copie
Love Letters [1999 TV movie] (2004) — Screenwriter — 4 copie
Overtime (1996) 4 copie
Office Hours (2011) 3 copie
Heresy (2013) 3 copie
Buffalo Gal (2002) 3 copie
Big Bill (2005) 3 copie
The Rape Of Bunny Stuntz (2010) 2 copie
Ancestral Voices (2000) 2 copie
Indian Blood (2006) 2 copie
Strictly Academic (2008) 2 copie
Screen Play (2005) 2 copie
Public affairs (1992) 2 copie
Post Mortem (2006) 1 copia
De eetkamer 1 copia
The Dining Room [1984 film] — Screenwriter — 1 copia
Children 1 copia

Opere correlate

Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays (1992) — Collaboratore — 56 copie
Best American Plays: Ninth Series, 1983-1992 (1993) — Collaboratore — 16 copie

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Recensioni

This is a beautifully written play. Written and performed so simply and yet carries a ton of heart.
 
Segnalato
caseybp | 2 altre recensioni | Feb 7, 2024 |
A comedy of manners billed as a sequel to "Merchant of Venice." Portia’s marriage to Bassanio, portrayed here as an Irish-Catholic jock, hasn’t gotten off the ground, so to speak. The union hasn’t been consummated yet. Bassanio has been too busy, shooting hoops and drinking a few brews with the boys.
And Antonio, the merchant himself, is played as a mournful, opera-loving homosexual who pines hopelessly for Bassanio.
 
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gaytheater | Mar 24, 2021 |
The love story between Andrew and Melissa is heartbreaking in that it spanned for decades, with timing troubles plaguing the couple (when one was ready, the other was in a relationship or not ready to settle down), and that it evades the happy endings that I hold so dear. Their love seems painstakingly real, captured in correspondence, leaving the reader to assume what happens in between (a very nice touch).
 
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JCLHeatherM | 1 altra recensione | Jan 27, 2018 |
An interesting idea poorly executed. The dialogue and the set up comes off like the high school play done by the Young Democrats. It spells everything out, explains its own jokes, and just basically gets by on a clever concept. The metaphors, however, are twisted way too far, and eventually the entire thing falls apart. This could have used several more revisions before it went public.
½
 
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Devil_llama | 1 altra recensione | Aug 10, 2015 |

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Statistiche

Opere
76
Opere correlate
4
Utenti
1,224
Popolarità
#20,980
Voto
½ 3.6
Recensioni
22
ISBN
92
Lingue
5
Preferito da
3

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