THE BASICS: This long one act by Buffalo native A. R. Gurney is making its WNY debut this month at the Kavinoky Theatre. Directed by Chris Kelly, and starring Peter Palmisano and Saul Elkin, BLACK TIE runs weekends through January 29th. It runs approximately 90 minutes.
SIDEBAR: "Pete" Gurney is a naturalist of sorts. He has spent the lion's share of his creative life studying the life cycle, preferences and habits of a single species: the Great Dinner-Dressed (read: Tuxedoed), Silver Spooned WASP. Here, as in THE DINING ROOM and many others, Gurney fixes a trained eye on His Own Kind, at once ribbing them and bidding them a fond farewell as they toddle along toward extinction.
THUMBNAIL SKETCH: The action (what there is of it) takes place in a suite at a lodge in the Adirondacks, present day. Teddy, son of Curtis, is getting married the next day, and Curtis, father of the groom, is readying himself to preside
SIDEBAR: "Pete" Gurney is a naturalist of sorts. He has spent the lion's share of his creative life studying the life cycle, preferences and habits of a single species: the Great Dinner-Dressed (read: Tuxedoed), Silver Spooned WASP. Here, as in THE DINING ROOM and many others, Gurney fixes a trained eye on His Own Kind, at once ribbing them and bidding them a fond farewell as they toddle along toward extinction.
THUMBNAIL SKETCH: The action (what there is of it) takes place in a suite at a lodge in the Adirondacks, present day. Teddy, son of Curtis, is getting married the next day, and Curtis, father of the groom, is readying himself to preside
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