Children
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 27, 2011
Closed Nov 20, 2011
Opened Oct 27, 2011
Closed Nov 20, 2011
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Children is one of the earliest plays by A.R. Gurney (The Cocktail Hour, The Dining Room). Set in 1970, a wealthy family gathers to celebrate the Fourth of July in their summer home on an island off the New England coast. With the return of an estranged and mysterious brother secrets are revealed, loyalties tested, and the shifting tides of generations challenge everyone's assumptions about their place in the family. Loosely based on John Cheever's short story "Goodbye, My Brother," Children probes the heart of one family to discover wider truths about the American social landscape.
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Fans of the beloved and prolific A. R. Gurney will want to catch his rarely-seen play Children, now being presented by T.A.C.T. at The Beckett, but theatergoers hoping for more than lightweight dramatic fare might wisely choose to sit this one out.
The work is an adaptation of the superlative writer John Cheever's short story, "Goodbye, My Brother," and the notion of a Gurney-Cheever match-up is particularly intriguing because of their shared interest in the thinness of WASP veneer.
Unfortunately, there's only the merest hint of Cheever left in Gurney's version of the tale, which concerns a family reunion at which an estranged brother (based on Cheever's older brother Fred) shows up [...]