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The Cocktail Hour

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  2w, 2m

A.R. Gurney

The Cocktail Hour
by A.R. Gurney

With a mixture of gentle comic poignancy and dramatic tension, the play examins the problems which arise when John, a leading playwright, returns home to ask his parents' permission to produce his latest work, a play about his family.

The Cocktail Hour

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    2w, 2m

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With a mixture of gentle comic poignancy and dramatic tension, one of America's leading contemporary playwrights here examin's the problems which arise when John, a leading playwright, returns home to ask his parents' permission to produce his latest work, a play about his family. The Cocktail Hour had a long and successful run in New York and successful tours in both the UK and Australia.
M2 (40s, 70s) F2 (40s, 60s)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A living-room

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A.R. Gurney

A.R. Gurney
A.R. (“Pete”) Gurney was born in 1930 in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Williams College in 1952, served as an officer in the Navy, and afterwards attended the Yale School of Drama. For many years, he taught literature at M.I.T., but moved to New York in 1982 to devote ...
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