Dinner With Friends
by Donald Margulies

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"'Dinner With Friends' explores the dynamics of friendship through the lens of marriage and divorce, revealing how relationships evolve over time."

From: Plays Centered on Friendship

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Over 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 are no easy answers as people evolve and relationships settle into routine."—David Kaufman, Daily News

"Donald Margulies has drawn one of the most complex and convincing portraits of a marriage in recent memory."—Debra Jo Immergut, The Wall Street Journal

"Dinner with Friends is entertainment as succulent as it is sobering."—John Simon, New York Magazine

Donald Margulies lives with his wife and son in New Haven, CT.

He is the author of numerous plays, including Collected Stories and Sight Unseen.

Publication

Year 2000
Binding Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 112
Place New York, USA
Language English
ISBN-13 9781559361941
ISBN-10 1559361948
eISBN-13 9781559367493
LCCN 41784
LCC PS3563.A653 D56 2000
DCC 812/.54

Dinner With Friends is a American play written by Donald Margulies and published by Theatre Communications in New York, USA (2000).

Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play (eISBN 9781559367493).

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