How do you like YOUR Lunch?

January 6, 2009

“The Flea Theater offers A.R. Gurney the opportunity to present a surprisingly touching elegy-lite to President Bush. Gurney, not previously known as a Bush supporter, wittily frames his elegy in a Pirandello-like self-referential negotiation between a youthful Gurney literary agent and a beautiful and beautifully unsure Texas attorney, seeking to purchase the rights to an imagined, unfinished Gurney play about Bush. Their negotiations, complicated by a growing attraction between the agent and the attorney and distracted by a waitress with theatrical ambitions are finally resolved by the waitress’s boyfriend, a drama professor respectful of theatrical classics. The question which stymies the negotiation is how to end Gurney’s imagined Bush play, but is quickly subsumed in the issue of how President Bush might possibly redeem himself after his calamitous presidency. After imagining various endings the professor suggests one whose aptness even trumps commercialism, resolving the negotiation. This brief and light-hearted treatment of a poetic resolution of Bush’s fate is well worth the trip to White Street. See it.” – Ronald Freeman, London

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