"If the family is the key theme of American drama, A R Gurney's ANCESTRAL VOICES: A FAMILY STORY is a beautiful chamber work in that great tradition.
The short play is staged as a concert work, with five performers sitting on chairs in front of music stands, where they've laid their scripts. The five are playing members--grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, son--of a rich WASP family in Buffalo NY between 1935 and 1942, with a brief coda...
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Drama