Dinner With Puppets
Somehow or other I never posted these two play reviews from several months ago... Dinner With Friends, which first played in New York in the late 1990s into 2001, is one of the major plays by Daniel Margulies. For a literary type such as myself, Collected Stories is perhaps the keynote. It's an All About Eve story of an aging writer and a young admirer/protege. More recently, Time Stands Still, a play about a wartorn journalist recovering from wounds physical and spiritual at home got a lot of attention. But it's Dinner With Friends that I saw today in a revival at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, and I can't say it impressed. It's a yuppie marital drama. A couple, probably in their thirties, are having a friend over for dinner. She reveals that her husband is leaving her. A few scenes that night of the aftershocks, one at her house, where he stops by when a flight cancellation keeps him from heading off to his new home. They have sex. Anoth...