The Dining Room
About the Show
By A.R.Gurney. Directed by John Oakenfull This mosaic of interrelated scenes, some funny, some touching, some rueful, is set in a dining room, the hub of social activity. Through a range of characters from little boys to grandfathers, from giggling girls to housemaids this insight into joy, sorrow, love and sadness creates a profound study of family life. The scene:an upper class American dining room in the north eastern United States over a period from the late 1930's to the 1980's, some scenes overlapping those before and after. The actors: Susan Adam, Nikki Packham, Sue Parker-Nutley, Michael Farrow, Raymond Langford Jones, Dennis Packham.