Entertaining strangers

Gurney, A. R.|

Literature & Fiction

DOUBLEDAY

A collection of four classic plays by the first American dramatist to ever receive the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize includes Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape. Original.

Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; The Emperor Jones; Beyond theHorizon

O’Neill, Eugene

Classics

Signet Classics

Three humorous plays deal with a playwright and his parents, individuals rebelling against society, and the search for perfection

The Cocktail Hour

Dramas & Plays

Plume

Playwright A. R. Gurney has become a national treasure with his portrayals of that quintessential American type, the New England WASP, and with his witty, unexpectedly heart-hitting dialogue. This collection of three recent plays, all produced in the 1990s, brings us incomparable Gurney - mature, masterful, and hilarious. In the hugely successful Later Life, a Boston banker and a woman he had a romantic interlude with thirty years earlier reunite at a cocktail party. In The Snow Ball, a play with music and dancing, another couple tried to recapture their youth with poignant results. And in The Old Boy, an Under Secretary of State returns to his prep school alma mater for a graduation day speech - and a stunning confession. All three works skillfully juxtapose conflicting emotions to blend wit with sadness, self-realization with self-delusion, and barren interior lives with the facade of prosperous middle-class existences. The result in each case is first-rate theater - comedic drama that works its magic on the stage and inside the audience's hearts.

Later Life and Two Other Plays: The Snow Ball and the Old Boy

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 and Australia.

Samuel. French

Another Antigone. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

A.R. Gurney

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

The Perfect Party.

THE STORY: The scene is a motel outside of Boston: a depersonalized, antiseptic environment into which, one after the other, come five sets of travelers. There is a well-to-do couple on a visit to their married daughter; a lonely salesman looking f

The Wayside Motor Inn.

Book by A.R. Gurney, Gurney, A. R.

What I Did Last Summer. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

THE STORY: Comprised of a series of vignettes and interrelated scenes, presented with a minimum of props and scenery and flowing together with resourceful theatricality, the story of Richard Cory is that of a wellborn young man who seems to have ev

Richard Cory (Formerly entitled WHO KILLED RICHARD CORY?).

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Entertaining strangers

Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; The Emperor Jones; Beyond theHorizon

The Cocktail Hour

Later Life and Two Other Plays: The Snow Ball and the Old Boy

The Cocktail Hour

Another Antigone. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

The Perfect Party.

The Wayside Motor Inn.

What I Did Last Summer. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Richard Cory (Formerly entitled WHO KILLED RICHARD CORY?).