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Gurney, Albert Ramsdell was born on November 1, 1930 in Buffalo. Son of Albert Ramsdell and Marion (Spaulding) Gurney.
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("The Dining Room," a play by the American playwright A. R...)
"The Dining Room," a play by the American playwright A. R. Gurney, Jr., is a comedy of manners, set in a single dining room where 18 scenes from different households overlap and intertwine. 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 stories are about White-Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) families. Some scenes are about the furniture itself and the emotional attachment to it, while other scenes simply flesh out the culture of the WASPs. Overall, it tells the story of the dying and relatively short-lived culture of upper-middle class Americans, and the transition into a much more efficient society with less emphasis on tradition and more emphasis on progress. Some characters are made fun of, as is the culture itself, but there is also a genuine longing for the sense of stability, comfort and togetherness that the culture provides.
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(FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA In such critic...)
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA In such critically acclaimed plays as The Dining Room and The Cocktail Hour, A. R. Gurney has wittily captured the manners of upper-middle-class WASP America, but never as gracefully or with such dazzling economy as in Love Letters. Tracing the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner, the story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written—and what is left unsaid—in their letters. A smash hit both off and on Broadway, Love Letters captures Andy and Melissa with a precision of detail and depth of feeling that only Gurney can command. Two other, thematically related plays by Gurney, The Golden Age and What I Did Last Summer, are included, providing a trio of wry and affectionate paeans to love lost, found, and fleetingly glimpsed.
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(NY 1974 1st (stated). Gurney's first novel. 8vo., 100pp.,...)
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Gurney, Albert Ramsdell was born on November 1, 1930 in Buffalo. Son of Albert Ramsdell and Marion (Spaulding) Gurney.
Bachelor, Williams College, 1952. DDL (honorary), Williams College, 1984. Master of Fine Arts, Yale University, 1958.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Buffalo State University, 1992. Doctor of Laws in Drama (honorary), Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1998.
He is known for works including Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, The Dining Room His and Sweet Sue. Gurney currently lives in New York and Connecticut. They resent us. They think we"re all Republicans, all superficial and all alcoholics.
Only the latter is true."
Born in Buffalo, New York, Gurney, a graduate of Saint Paul"s School (Concord, New Hampshire), attended Williams College and the Yale School of Drama, after which he began teaching Humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began writing plays such as Children and The Middle Ages while at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it was his great success with The Dining Room that allowed him to write full-time.
Since The Dining Room, Gurney has written a number of plays, most of them concerning WASPs of the American northeast. While at Yale, Gurney also wrote the musical: Love in Buffalo.
This was the first musical ever produced at the Yale School of Drama. His most recent play is Love and Money, about a mature woman making plans to dispose of her fortune, and the twists that ensue.
The world premiere was at New York"s Signature Theatre in August 2015.
Before that, The Grand Manner, a play about his real life encounter with famed actress Katharine Cornell in her production of Shakespeare"s Antony and Cleopatra, was produced and performed by Lincoln Center for the summer of 2010. lieutenant was also produced in Buffalo by the Kavinoky Theatre. Gurney has also written several novels, including The Snow Ball, The Gospel According to Joe and Entertaining Strangers.
He appeared in several of his plays including The Dining Room and most notably Love Letters.
(FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA In such critic...)
("The Dining Room," a play by the American playwright A. R...)
(this is a play in one act by A R Gurney.)
(this acting edition is out of print. The play is availabl...)
(Book by A R Gurney, Gurney, A. R.)
(Plays, Theatre, Drama)
(NY 1974 1st (stated). Gurney's first novel. 8vo., 100pp.,...)
(Trade paperback.)
(First Edition)
(Looks new.)
(Book by A.R. Gurney, Gurney, A. R.)
(84 pp)
American Academy of Arts and Letters]
In 2006, Gurney was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Married Mary Forman Goodyear, June 8, 1957. Children: George, Amy, Evelyn, Benjamin.
