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Event Information:
When: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 8 p.m.
Age limit: All ages
Where:
Trumbull New Theater
5883 Youngstown-Warren Road
Niles, OH
330-652-1103
Categorized under: Onstage | Onstage, Theater | Theater.
Recuring Event? No
Long Description: Dramatic Comedy by A. R. Gurney…..Director: Ben Gavitt: 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 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 upper-middle-class WASP. The actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill as they portray a wide variety of characters, from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from giggling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces a new set of people and events; a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy returns from boarding school to discover his mother's infidelity; a senile grandmother doesn't recognize her own sons at Christmas dinner; a daughter, her marriage a shambles, pleads futilely to return home, etc.
Event posted: May 11, 2009
Last updated: Aug. 16, 2016
