Upper School play: "Office Hours"
Seniors produce and direct A.R. Gurney's comedy about the merits of studying Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and other dead white male writers.
Cast members include members of the senior class and Upper School teachers Peter Shulman (history), Tony Stocks (English), Ginia King (Enlgish), and Jim Wysocki (math).
Tickets $7 for students, $9 for adults.
Synposis from New York Times
A.R. Gurney resurrects the culture clash over dead white males in his latest play, “Office Hours,” a wispy but congenial comedy structured as a series of tutorials tied to classical literature’s greatest hits. The play makes a gentle plea for the enduring worth of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and the rest of the dear, derided DWMs as writers whose works illuminate everlasting problems of human life, even the lives of disgruntled feminists and deranged veterans of the Vietnam War. Set on the campus of an unnamed liberal arts college in the early 1970s, the play is divided into 10 scenes depicting the relationships between the teachers and students of an embattled class called “The Western Tradition.” The course’s status as a requirement for graduation is being called into question as the radicalized culture of the time takes root in academia.
