cover photo by James Leynse
“A R Gurney’s latest play, INDIAN
BLOOD, is like a snow globe for the stage, in this case a memento of wintry
Buffalo in the mid-1940s…. Written with delicacy and old-school craftsmanship,
INDIAN BLOOD is a modest memory play that is endowed with a measure of emotional
heft.”
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
“In INDIAN BLOOD, his delightful and
touching memory play, A R Gurney takes a break from his recent anti-Bush salvos
(MRS FARNSWORTH, SCREENPLAY) and returns to his treasured hometown of Buffalo….
INDIAN BLOOD can be seen as a companion piece to Gurney’s recent political
works, for he feels as strongly about what he lost long ago on the shores of
Lake Erie as what he now finds daily along the Potomac. Eulogizing the past is
just one more way to take a slap at the present.”
Robert Simonson, Time Out
“ INDIAN BLOOD is smart, diverting
and very much worth seeing.”
Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
“In his sweet and civilized memoir
of a sixteen year-old boy in rebellion against the stuffy values of his
upper-middle-class family, prolific scribe A R Gurney deftly sidesteps the
deathtrap of narcissism that trips up most coming-of-age plays.”
Marilyn Stasio, Daily Variety
“Much like his fellow American
master Horton Foote’s evocations of 1900s Texas townsin tone and exaction, if
not styleGurney’s expert accounts of genteel American life are compassionate
plays. Lighter in emotional fabric than some of his stories, INDIAN BLOOD
otherwise proves no exception to Gurney’s excellent body of classy works.”
Michael Sommers, The Star Ledger
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