Can Gurney and Simpson save civilization? Maybe not, but for the playwright/director team, putting politics on stage is a start.(A.R. Gurney, Jim Simpson)(Interview)
American Theatre, December, 2006 by Collins-Hughes, Laura
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FIVE YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, when arts organizations in post-9/11 Lower Manhattan were desperate to draw people downtown, the tiny Flea Theater in Tribeca began previews of a play that would become, simultaneously, a star-studded monster hit and a salve for a wounded city. Over the following year, more than 12,000 people filed through the Flea's doors to see The Guys, Anne Nelson's theatrical response to the terrorist attacks. One of those people, lured by his actor friend Swoosie Kurtz, was playwright A.R. Gurney.
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