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The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party
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Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 70 Pub. Date: 2010 ISBN-10: 0573628319 ISBN-13: 9780573628313
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The Dinner Party is a
full-length comedy by Neil Simon. Six people – three hapless
couples – are invited to a dinner party at a fancy Parisian
restaurant. Their host invited them anonymously and may or may not be
one of the guests. They combine to produce tension, laughs and more
in a decidedly French dinner party served up in a chaotic mode that
only a master of comedy could create.
The Dinner Party relates the story of six guests who are
invited to a private dining room in a first-rate restaurant in Paris.
Neil Simon's thirty-first play has the biting dialogue and
rapidly paced repartee that his fans have come to expect, but The
Dinner Party has more serious moments than a typical Simon play.
It also has an air of mystery as the diners do not know why they have
been brought together . When the first guests arrive, they do not
know who the other guests will be or what the group of diners might
have in common, but it soon becomes evident that at least four of the
invitees are two divorced couples. Who the sixth guest is and why
they have all been brought together does not become clear until the
final guest arrives. The Dinner Party is about damaged
relationships and the possibility of forgiveness and reconciliation;
it's funny, sad, and thought-provoking.
The Dinner Party had
pre-Broadway engagements
in 1999 at
the Mark Taper Forum
in Los Angeles and
the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. It
premiered in
2000 at the Music Box Theatre
and ran for a
year on Broadway. The play is regularly performed in regional
repertory,
high
school, college,
and community theatre productions.
Cast: 3 women, 3 men.
What people say:
"A blizzard of one liners....
The audience can bank on some good laughs." — New
York Daily News
"Frequently hilarious but also
dangerously serious.... An invitation you'll be glad you accepted."
— New York Post
About the Playwright:
Neil Simon (1927-2018) was America's most prolific
playwright. He had dozens of plays and nearly as many major motion
pictures produced. He was showered with more Academy and Tony
nominations than any other writer, and is the only playwright to have
four Broadway productions running simultaneously. His plays have been
produced in dozens of languages, and have been blockbuster hits from
Beijing to Moscow. His true success, however, is in his unique way of
exposing something real in the American spirit.
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