Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "In pondering issues of intimacy, passion and the pleasure and dolors of conjugal routine, Margulies writes about relationships with such intelligence and spiky humor that his comedy-drama...becomes something quite wonderful." -William Tynan, Time "A true feast. Dinner with Friends is sober, wise and extremely funny...Mr. Margulies writes with elegance and wit about intimacy, trust, privacy and the toll of time and monogamy on sexual passion, matters that aren't easily expressed in dramatic dialogue." -Vincent Canby, ...
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "In pondering issues of intimacy, passion and the pleasure and dolors of conjugal routine, Marg...
"Donald Margulies has an unerring sense of language and the ability to penetrate deeply into the darkness of tangled human emotions." -Joel Hirschhorn, Variety "Quietly melancholic... Margulies has a near-matchless ear for what common speech can express and what it can only hint at. He explores the queasy relationships between life and art, love and estrangement, and the bane that is American identity drift, with unsparing but compassionate candor." -Misha Berson, Seattle Times "Margulies's remarkable gift of building characterization through realistic dialogue is...
"Donald Margulies has an unerring sense of language and the ability to penetrate deeply into the darkness of tangled human emotions." -Joel Hirschhorn...
Hush now For I am about to tell you a story. A fantastic and amazing story A story all the more remarkable because every word of it is true. That's right. Every word. How do I know? Because I lived it, dear ones... Thus begins Shipwrecked An Entertainment--The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself). Based on a Victorian hoaxer's tale of being a castaway in the South Pacific--complete with buried treasure, a giant killer octopus, and cannibals--Margulies revisits themes of authenticity and loss as he returns to what theater does best....
Hush now For I am about to tell you a story. A fantastic and amazing story A story all the more remarkable because every word of it is true...
-The play's two hours fly by as if you've barely taken a breath. . . . Ethical dilemmas arise like exploding mines.--Variety
-Mr. Margulies is a skilled practitioner of fluid dialogue that is naturally funny and sensibly smart.- -The New York Times
In his -absorbing intelligent- (Los Angeles Times) and timely new play, Donald Margulies uncovers the layers of a relationship between a photojournalist and foreign correspondent--once addicted to the adrenaline of documenting the atrocities of war, and now grounded in the couple's Brooklyn loft. Photographer...
-The play's two hours fly by as if you've barely taken a breath. . . . Ethical dilemmas arise like exploding mines.--Variety
