Donald Margulies Pullitzer Prize-Winning Dinner With Friends runs at the Andrews Lane Theatre until February 5th.
David Parnell directs this Irish premiere starring, Karen Ardiff (Doldrum Bay, Love in the Title), Fiona Bell (The Country, See You Next Tuesday), Peter Hanly (Improbable Frequency) and Paul Meade (Alone It Stands, Charlie).
This breezy comedy of manners is true to the title itself and focuses around food either at a dinner table, in a kitchen, preparing a meal or gobbling up leftovers. The play divulges the effect of a marital breakdown on a forty-something couple and their best friends.
Dinner With Friends confronts the very nature of friendship itself. Gabe, a food writer and his wife Karen had originally introduced Tom and Beth twelve years earlier. The first Act focuses on Beth telling her best friend Karen that her husband Tom is leaving her for another woman. Act II reverts back in time and we see Gabe and Karen's holiday home on Martha's Vineyard. The following three scenes move forward to life after the couples break-up.
This is an excellently crafted play with finely drawn characters and emotionally raw dialogue. Just as the audience believes to know the reason why Tom and Beth's relationship has dissolved, a new piece of information is brought to light that changes the circumstances dramatically.
Donald Margulies was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Trump Village, a Coney Island project built by Donald Trump's father. Marguilies was exposed to theatre at a young age. His father, a wallpaper salesman brought his children to Manhattan to attend Broadway plays and musicals despite his limited income.
"Margulies writes about relationships with such intelligence and spiky humour that his comedy-drama…. Becomes something quite wonderful" Time Magazine
Dinner With Friends
Time: 8pm
Tickets:€24/€19/€17.50
Andrew's Lane Theatre
9-17 St Andrew's Lane
Dublin 2.
Tel: 679 5720
Web: Andrew's Lane
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