LIBROS DEL AUTOR: a r gurney

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  • Darlene & The Guest Lecturer
    A R Gurney
    This collection includes two one-act plays: DARLENE and THE GUEST LECTURER. In DARLENE a mysterious woman puts a strain on a suburban couple’s marriage. In THE GUEST LECTURER, Mona runs a financially strapped regional theatre and is willing to take “diabolical steps” to keep the venue going.   “Wild. Weird. Wacky. And rather wonderful. That’s DARLENE & THE GUEST LECTURER. A R G...
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    17,69 €

  • Far East
    A R Gurney
    '... this poignant new play is a welcome reminder of A R Gurney’s gliding dialogue and structural elegance, as well as the troubled, rueful heart that informs all his work.'Ben Brantley, The New York Times 'A play that does everything right. The new drama by A R Gurney looks at who Americans were in the mid-1950s-a few Americans, anyway-and how they behaved out in those vast ...
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    17,72 €

  • A Light Lunch
    A R Gurney
    A LIGHT LUNCH is a post-Bush cautionary tale about the price paid for legacy. When a young lawyer from Texas invites a literary agent for lunch in a New York City restaurant, more than a production is on the table.'The gentlemanly playwright A R Gurney casually tosses his own metaphorical shoe ... in the direction of our departing president in his latest politically minded play...
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    17,53 €

  • Buffalo Gal
    A R Gurney
    Amanda is a once successful television personality whose star is now fading. Life imitates art as she returns to her hometown of Buffalo to star in Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD. Just as she is connecting with her roots - both onstage and off - she is called back to Hollywood for a role that could recharge her career. Will her love of theater be enough to keep her in Buffalo?'Th...
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    17,60 €

  • Strictly Academic
    A R Gurney
    This collection includes two short plays: THE GUEST LECTURER and THE PROBLEM. THE GUEST LECTURER: Mona runs a financially strapped regional theatre and takes 'diabolical steps' to keep the venue going. THE PROBLEM: A husband and wife learn of each other's extramarital affairs. 'For many years, as he was forging his reputation as a playwright, A R Gurney was also a college prof...
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    16,10 €

  • Crazy Mary
    A R Gurney
    In an attempt to account for the family inheritance, the scion of a wealthy Buffalo, New York clan and her willful, college-aged son visit their long-lost cousin Mary. The catch: Mary is living in an asylum for the wealthy insane and has barely spoken in years, forcing mother and son to employ radical ends to get through.'Comparisons between playwrights and novelists are almost...
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    17,78 €

  • Post Mortem
    A R Gurney
    POST MORTEM is set in the not-too-distant future when the Christian Right holds power. Alice, a lowly lecturer in drama at a faith-based state university in the Midwest, and Dexter, an enthusiastic student more interested in his teacher than the theatre, become embroiled in the discovery of a play by an obscure late 20th century playwright named A R Gurney. When the authorities...
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    15,88 €

  • Indian Blood
    A R Gurney
    INDIAN BLOOD is the story of an adolescent boy trying to stretch his wings in a large and traditional family.'A R Gurney’s latest play, INDIAN BLOOD, is like a snow globe for the stage, in this case a memento of wintry Buffalo in the mid-1940s ... Written with delicacy and old-school craftsmanship, INDIAN BLOOD is a modest memory play that is endowed with a measure of emotional...
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    17,60 €

  • Big Bill
    A R Gurney
    BIG BILL captures tennis player William Tilden’s turbulent life in a series of scenes that shift back and forth in time. Performed on a set that resembles a tennis arena, the play illuminates the sportsman’s distinguished career, extravagant style, personal travails, and, ultimately, his calamitous downfall. A fascinating look at the glory of sport, the power of fame, and the a...
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    17,60 €

  • Mrs Farnsworth
    A R Gurney
    'Politicians poised to sling mud might take a pointer or two from A R Gurney: Good manners can be lethal weapons, and a glancing sideswipe may cause more damage than a punch in the nose. An expert demonstration of such tactics is on ... in Mr Gurney’s disarming new play, MRS FARNSWORTH ... Though it deals with revelations that are the stuff of smear campaigns, MRS FARNSWORTH is...
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    17,50 €

  • O Jerusalem
    A R Gurney
    O JERUSALEM centers around an American State Department official who becomes entangled in Middle Eastern politics before and after September 11, 2001. Along the way, the protagonist encounters a Palestinian woman from his past.'It's true that O JERUSALEM, an exhilarating new play by A R Gurney … seems especially timely because of its subject matter. After all, it touches on...
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    16,02 €

  • Ancestral Voices
    A R Gurney
       “If the family is the key theme of American drama, A R Gurney’s ANCESTRAL VOICES: A FAMILY STORY is a beautiful chamber work in that great tradition.   The short play is staged as a concert work, with five performers sitting on chairs in front of music stands, where they’ve laid their scripts. The five are playing members—grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, son—of a ri...
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    26,86 €

  • The Cocktail Hour
    A R Gurney / A. R. Gurney / ARGurney
    With a mixture of gentle comic poignancy and dramatic tension, one of America’s leading contemporary playwrights here examines the problems which arise when John, a leading playwright, returns home to ask his parent’s permission to produce his latest work, a play about his family. The Cocktail Hour had a long and successful run in New York and successful tours in both the UK an...
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    18,34 €

  • The Dining Room - A Play
    A R Jr Gurney / A.R. Gurney Jr / A.RGurney Jr
    Three men and three women portray a wide, diverse range of characters - from little boys to grandfathers, from giggling girls to housemaids - in this brilliantly structured play. The action takes place in an upper middle-class American dining-room, the hub of social family life, comprising a mosaic of interrelated scenes, sometimes funny, sometimes touching, sometimes rueful, w...
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    18,45 €