Collected Plays Volume III, 1984-1991

by A.R. Gurney

Plays are: Another Antigone, The Cocktail Hour, The Golden Age, Love
Letters, The Old Boy, The Perfect Party, and Sweet Sue.

A.R. Gurney Plays: Scenes From American Life, Children, The Dining Room,
The Middle Ages, Richard Cory, The Golden Age, What I did Last Summer, The
Wayside Motor Inn, Sweet Sue, The Perfect Party, Another Antigone, The
Cocktail Hour, Love Letter, The Snow Ball (adapted from his novel), The Old
Boy, The Fourth Wall, Later Life, A Cheever Evening, Sylvia, Overtime,
Let's Do It (a Cole Porter musical), Labor Day, Far East, Darlene and The
Guest Lecturer, Ancestral Voices. Opera: Wrote libretto for "Strawberry
Fields" with music by Michael Torke, part of the Central Park Opera trilogy
presented by the New York City Opera in the Fall of 1999.

Novels: The
Gospel According to Joe, Entertaining Strangers and The Snow Ball.

Awards:
Drama Desk, N.E.A., Rockefeller Foundation, New England Theatre Conference,
Lucille Lortel, American Association of Community theatres, American
Academy and Institute of arts and Letters.

Honorary degrees: Williams
College and Buffalo State University, Gurney was on the faculty of M.I.T.
until 1996. He is the husband of one, father of four, and grandfather of six.

352 pages, Paperback

First published November 6, 2000

About the author

A.R. Gurney was an American playwright and novelist.

Reviews

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some ups and downs in this collection of Gurney plays centering on his recurring examination of the WASP in American society and its slow extinction.