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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Old boy".
- catalog alternative "Snow ball".
- catalog contributor b6687071.
- catalog contributor b6687072.
- catalog contributor b6687073.
- catalog coverage "New England Drama.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Later life -- The snow ball -- The old boy.".
- catalog extent "xi, 288 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Later life.".
- catalog identifier "0452272513".
- catalog isFormatOf "Later life.".
- catalog isPartOf "Plume drama".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Plume,".
- catalog relation "Later life.".
- catalog spatial "New England Drama.".
- catalog spatial "New England".
- catalog subject "812/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Middle-aged persons Drama.".
- catalog subject "Middle-aged persons New England Drama.".
- catalog subject "PS3557.U82 L37 1994".
- catalog subject "WASPs (Persons) Drama.".
- catalog subject "WASPs (Persons) New England Drama.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Later life -- The snow ball -- The old boy.".
- catalog title "Later life : and two other plays, The Snow ball and The Old boy / A.R. Gurney.".
- catalog title "Old boy".
- catalog title "Snow ball".
- catalog type "Drama. fast".
- catalog type "text".