Dinner With Friends, Donald Margulies
Dinner With Friends, Donald Margulies
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Dinner With Friends

Author: Donald Margulies

Narrator: Matthew Arkin, Lisa Emery, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2003


Synopsis

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Dinner with Friends examines the lives of two couples and the repercussions of divorce on their friendships. With wit, compassion and consummate skill, playwright Donald Margulies weighs the cost of breaking up — and of staying together.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Matthew Arkin, Lisa Emery, Kevin Kilner and Deirdre O'Connell.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liza on May 25, 2016

Marriages are complicated, and this play is touching some of the most sensitive points with good humor and lots of drama. About how friends and relationships are forming, but also how fragile they are, and how easily they can get destroyed. What would you do if as a couple, your best friends-couple......more

Goodreads review by Mad Dog on July 12, 2010

This play works well for as a stimulant for conversation or as an evocative little story about the passing of 'friendships'. The losses of 'friendship' (or perhaps the lost opportunity for a real friendship) in this story was sad to me. It makes you think about what really is a friendship and what i......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on May 12, 2018

Do we always look at the marriage — or the dissolution of marriage — of our friends through the prism of our own experience? Dinner with Friends really made me ponder that point. And I still have no answer. (view spoiler)[And the fact that the divorcing couple, Tom and Beth, are each incredibly self-centered, albei (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Cherie on April 07, 2014

I listened to this audio performance this evening. Well done with some real insights about how people and couples react and talk to each other. Funny and heartbreaking with passion on the side!......more

Goodreads review by Michelle Winters on June 21, 2009

I think seeing this as a play would have been better. The intracaticies of 2 couples relationships were laid bare for all to see, for better for worse. Some of it was endearing and some of it very sad. It make me think about what it means to have a successful relationship, what it takes to have one,......more