The Dining Room By Ar Gurney
Each story is focused on a different family during different time periods each of which has in its possession the same dining room furniture set manufactured in 1898.
The dining room by ar gurney. The play takes place in a dining room or rather many dining rooms. Published on nov 22 2016 fixed the audio in this re uploaded version. Gurney s play the dining room which was nominated for multiple cappies high.
The dining room is a play by the american playwright a. Indeed it is the only fixture that remains constant from scene to scene. While the play is written for six actors three men and three women there are 57 different characters who perform 17 scenes throughout the course of a day gurney opens his play with detailed stage directions describing the dining room.
This was my high school s production of a r. Gurney wants to create a feeling of a dining room existing in a void whatever events happened before or happen after a particular scene do not matter. It was first produced off broadway at the studio theatre of playwrights horizons in 1981.
The dining room was a vanishing institution when gurney first wrote the play and it s not as if the middle class got any more solid since then. Gurney jr is a comedy of manners set in a single dining room where 18 scenes from different households overlap and intertwine. The people who populate these scenes aren t related but they very well could be.