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A R Gurney
Labor Day
by A R Gurney, Albert Ramsdell Gurney
Synopsis
THE STORY: John is an established older playwright recovering from a bout with cancer.
His latest work, which he views as his best, if possibly his last, has gained the interest of a major regional theatre, the Shubert Organization, and a possible
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"LABOR DAY…Gurney's…latest offers the Pirandellian kick of seeing the play-within-the-play that is stirring the characters to a tizzy come to life before our very eyes…This is a summer breeze of a comedy, a September song about nearing life's end that has been transposed to a major key, leaving us on a lingering note of love and blue sky. The evening is so airy that it is easy to overlook the craft with which it has been spun and the welcome mocking tone that keeps it aloft.“ —Newsday (NY). ”Gurney's gentle comic touch is as sure as ever here…Gurney can illuminate with graceful comic prose the deep recesses of sadness and disappointment that lie beneath layers of smooth sociability."
— Variety
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1999
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822216858
ISBN-10 082221685X
LCCN 99475292
LCC PS3557.U82 L33 1999
DCC 812/.54
Labor Day is a American play written by A R Gurney and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1999).
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