cover by David Prittie
“The gentlemanly playwright A R Gurney casually tosses his own metaphorical
shoe…in the direction of our departing president in his latest politically
minded play,
A LIGHT
LUNCH.
Mr Gurney take[s] jovial, self-deprecating jabs at his own foibles, and the
follies of the theater business too.”
Charles Isherwood,
New York Times
“A R Gurney’s jokey new
play,
A LIGHT LUNCH,
is refreshingly unlike most contempo American political theater. Plenty of
laughs, and no shortage of fun moments between the performers. It’s a “Lunch”
worth chewing over!”
Variety
“Gurney has fun mocking
theatrical conventions….”
Backstage
“ A R Gurney's tasty new play…A
LIGHT LUNCH, his latest work about our soon-to-be ex-President, is a
model of political theater. The beauty of it is that its politics and its
theater could not be more inextricably bound. Exquisitely self-aware, A LIGHT
LUNCH uses the theater—and self-deprecating comments about A R Gurney himself—to
make serio-comic points about George Bush throughout the play.
…The emphasis of the production…is on the text of Gurney's play, which is
where the focus rightly belongs.”
Barbara & Scott Siegel,
TheaterMania.com
world premier by The Flea Theater
2 M, 2 F
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$12.95