Old Money: A Play
A dinner party in an ornate mansion on the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan provides the scene for this witty and incisive play. Set in two eras--the early 1900s and our own Gilded Age--the characters move effortlessly from one period to the other. The host, a contemporary master of high-risk arbitrage, steps in and out of character as a robber baron of an earlier time. His guests of today include a Hollywood director, a not-so-cutting-edge...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0573627932
ISBN13:9780573627934
Release Date:January 2002
Publisher:Samuel French
Length:74 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Customer Reviews
1 rating
An extraordinary and very moving play
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This heartfelt and moving play shifts back and forth in time but maintains a single setting: the living room of a Manhattan mansion. The two contrasting timeframes are used to explicate Wasserstein's themes or art vs.commerce, of love and loss. This is a thoughtful and beautiful work, and I can't recommend it highly enough.This play should be read by anyone with an interest in American drama.
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