Dinner With Friends
by Donald Margulies

Name: Dinner With Friends
Brand: Donald Margulies
SKU: 9780822217541
Rating: 3.77 (2436 reviews)

Off-Broadway

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Present Day Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Pulitzer Prize

Winner! 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaOver the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama.

His body of work includes The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment and Collected Stories, and with each succeeding work his audiences have grown.

It is no surprise that his newest work is his most critically successful yet.

As with all of Margulies’s work, he is a master of observing what might be considered the ordinary moments of life and its foibles with fresh ears.

Dinner with Friends is a funny yet bittersweet examination of the married lives of two couples who have been extremely close for dozens of years.

Although it seems to be treading on familiar ground, Dinner keeps changing its perspective to show how one couple’s breakup can have equally devastating effects on another’s stability.

"This is a smart and subtle play that understand there ar

Themes American Drama

Press Reviews

"Margulies writes about relationships with such intelligence and spiky humor that his comedy-drama... becomes something quite wonderful."
— Time

"Wry and keenly observed and bathed in the unspoken sorrow that can sneak up on you in middle age.” "
— The New York Times

"A breezy comedy of modern manners that turns poignant and deeply affecting by its end. Margulies touches chords that resonate with a deep affecting humanity."
— San Francisco Examiner