The Dining Room Play

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.

The dining room play.

The dining room is a two act play consisting of 18 distinct scenes that utilizes theatrical conventions such as pantomime non linear timelines double triple quadruple casting and minimal costumes and set playwright a r. Join stageagent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Presumably each story is focused around a different family during different time periods who has in their possession the same dining room furniture set manufactured in 1898. Presumably each story is focused around a different family during different time periods who has in their possession the same dining room furniture set manufactured in 1898.

It s a series of wealthy white folks and their family dra this is the fall play at the ft s high school so of course i. Dramatists play service inc 1982 drama 88 pages 0 reviews the story. Gurney presented by generic theatre co. The dining room written by a r.

The play is set in the dining room of a typical well to do household the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. 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. The play is a comedy of manners set in a single dining room where 18 scenes from different households overlap and intertwine. The play can be done with as few as six actors playing as many as ten different characters.

Directed by maddie hendricks. The play is broken up into short vignettes that provide a slice of life view of many different families. The play is a comedy of manners set in a single dining room where 18 scenes from different households overlap and intertwine. Gurney s attempt to take an in depth look into the lives of a vanishing species.

The people who populate these scenes aren t related but they very well could be. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes some funny some touching some rueful which taken together create an in depth portrait of a vanishing species. The dining room is a r.