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The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP. The actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill as they portray a wide variety of characters, from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from giggling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces a new set of people and events; a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy returns from boarding school to discover his mother’s infidelity; a senile grandmother doesn’t recognize her own sons at Christmas dinner; a daughter, her marriage a shambles, pleads futilely to return home, etc. Dovetailing swiftly and smoothly, the varied scenes coalesce, ultimately, into a theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and abundant humanity.
- A.R. Gurney
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Providence Ballet Theatre, What Is, Was and Will Be
The Botanical Center (4/26 - 4/27) | |
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Ballet RI Presents Cinderella
The Vets (5/10 - 5/12) | |
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Not Afraid to Dare
Gallery X (4/28 - 4/28)
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Newport Contemporary Ballet presents the Newport Dance Festival
Great Friends Meeting House (7/17 - 7/21) | |
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La Cage aux Folles
Trinity Repertory Company (5/30 - 6/30) | |
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And Then There Were None
The Arctic Playhouse (4/12 - 4/28) | |
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August Wilson's Fences
Trinity Repertory Company (3/21 - 4/28) | |
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Aztec Two-Step 2.0 featuring Rex Fowler, Dodie Pettit & Friends - Concert & Book Launch!
Courthouse Center for the Arts (4/27 - 4/27) | |
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