A Light Lunch
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 19, 2008
Closed Jan 25, 2009
Opened Dec 19, 2008
Closed Jan 25, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
A Light Lunch is a post Bush cautionary tale about the price paid for legacy. When a young lawyer from Texas invites a literary agent for lunch in a New York City restaurant, more than a production is on the table. The Bats take center stage in this World Premiere engagement. This is The Flea's fifth Gurney collaboration and will reunite Jim Simpson and the company with a play written specifically with them in mind.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
RE:Self indulgent
Despite the synopsis, this is about a bunch of agents working on paying Gurney to write a pro-Bush play.
Cons: sophomoric, poorly written, a general mess; a waste of everyones time with no comic or literary worth
Pros: I saw Sigourney Weaver in the audience
Reviewed by aaron2
on Sunday, Dec 21st, 2008
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A.R. Gurney's tasty new play at the Flea Theater, A Light Lunch, his latest work about our soon-to-be ex-President, is a model of political theater. The beauty of it is that its politics and its theater could not be more inextricably bound. Exquisitely self-aware, A Light Lunch uses the theater -- and self-deprecating comments about A.R. Gurney himself -- to make serio-comic points about George Bush throughout the play.
The play begins with Beth (Beth Hoyt), a young female lawyer from Texas arriving at a New York restaurant to meet A.R. Gurney's agent from William Morris. Before the agent arrives, Beth asks the waitress (and would-be actress) Viola (Havilah Brewster) if she knows anything[...]