Children

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As any informed theatergoer knows, the plight of contemporary White Anglo-Saxon Protestants is the terrain of playwright A.R. Gurney. The same subject was also charted masterfully by the author John Cheever, whose highly esteemed short story "Goodbye, My Brother" -- a fictionalized record of his complicated relationship with his brother, Fred -- served as Gurney's inspiration for his early play, Children, which is now receiving an inspired revival at the Westport Country Playhouse (before transferring in July to the Williamstown Theatre Festival), under John Tillinger's direction.

It may be Cheever's skill at consistently cutting to the bone that gives the play some added power, even though[...]