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The Perfect Party

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 2m

A.R. Gurney

The Perfect Party
by A.R. Gurney

Tony, a professor of American literature and quintessential WASP, concentrates on staging a party to end all parties. His aim appears to be, as a member of the WASP former ruling class, to teach America how to entertain properly. He has also invited …

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Tony, a professor of American literature and quintessential WASP, concentrates on staging a party to end all parties. His aim appears to be, as a member of the WASP former ruling class, to teach America how to entertain properly. He has also invited a critic from a 'major New York newspaper' in the hope of getting a perfect review for the perfect party, but the critic announces that the evening lacks 'the essential element of danger'.
M2 (middle-age) F3 (middle-age)
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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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