Sentence examples for gurney works from inspiring English sources

As a story of ethnic dinosaurs stranded by history, "Crazy Mary" brings to mind vintage Gurney works like "The Cocktail Hour" and "The Middle Ages".

The Flea, a well-regarded TriBeCa theater known for the 9/11 play "The Guys" and productions of A. R. Gurney works, bought a two-story office building at 20 Thomas Street last December for $5.3 million, according to the artistic director, Jim Simpson.

It includes many signatures of future Gurney works: a wry humor that picks playfully at aging upper-crust traditions; a single set — here, a cedar-shingled terrace equipped with the essential wicker chairs and cocktail glasses; an insular, dysfunctional family going through the well-bred motions; a character who upsets the orderly apple cart.

But this early Gurney work, first produced in 1974, adds plotlines about inheritances and affairs and reduces its characters to class stereotypes.

The novel builds to twin climaxes – of a concert arranged inside the asylum to play Gurney's works, and the tragedy that befalls Lyle.

Mr. Gurney is working more in archetypes, distilled from both his own work and contemporary headlines than in fully integrated characters.

Yet the conflict in Mr. Gurney's work is eternal -- and theatrical, Mr. Saint pointed out.

This speaks to the need for theories that assign dopamine a more general role as opposed to relating it exclusively to reward (Pessiglione 2006; Schultz 1998), salience (Berridge 2007, 2012), novelty (Bunzeck and Düzel 2006; Redgrave and Gurney 2006), working memory (Williams and Goldman-Rakic 1995), or learning (Steinberg et al. 2013).

First performed in 1974, "Children" is one of Mr. Gurney's earlier works, written when he was teaching literature at M.I.T.

For years before "Upstairs, Downstairs," Ms. Gurney found steady work in the theater, playing modern and classical roles, including a 1955 turn as Portia in "The Merchant of Venice" and a 1965 run of "A Winter's Tale," in which she played Hermione alongside John Gielgud.

One problem is that Gurney seems to have worked from a checklist of social ills he wanted to address, then forced the dialogue in their direction.