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Total Rating: 
***1/4
Opened: 
November 13, 2002
Ended: 
December 22, 2002
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Primary Stages
Theater Type: 
off-Broadway
Theater: 
Primary Stages
Theater Address: 
West 45th Street
Running Time: 
90 min
Genre: 
Comedy
Author: 
A.R. Gurney
Director: 
David Saint
Review: 

A.R. Gurney stretches his wings by satirizing the kind of brittle, WASPy drawing room comedies by which he earns his keep. The premise - that a white suburban woman (Sandy Duncan) keeps a wall of her living room blank to represent the world "out there" -- is a tad flimsy for ninety minutes, but Gurney fills the evening out by spoofing the conventions of playwriting, the expectations of audiences, and the socially-constructed fallacy of American hegemony. And, yes, the laughs are there.

Cast: 
Sandy Duncan, Charles Kimbrough, David Pittu, Susan Sullivan
Technical: 
Set: James Youmans; Costumes: David Murin; Lighting: Jeff Croiter; Sound: Christopher J. Bailey; Musical Dir: James Valcq; Props: Laurie Marvald; PSM: Mona El-Khatib; Prod Mgr: Lester P. Grant; Casting: Stephanie Klapper; GM: Nicole Cavaliere; PR: Jeffrey Richards Assoc.
Critic: 
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed: 
December 2002