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  • Indian Blood
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    Indian Blood

    A R Gurney
    Trade Edition$15.95
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    Note

    Production materials consist of 44 images for projection.
    Winner 2006–2007 Outer Critics Circle Award

    Play Description

    INDIAN BLOOD is the story of an adolescent boy trying to stretch his wings in a large and traditional family.

    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
    Categories: The Plays Tags: Family, Christmas
    • Reviews
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    • Audio Interview
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    Press Quotes

    “A R Gurney’s latest play, INDIAN BLOOD, is like a snow globe for the stage, in this case a memento of wintry Buffalo in the mid-1940s … Written with delicacy and old-school craftsmanship, INDIAN BLOOD is a modest memory play that is endowed with a measure of emotional heft.” —Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

    “In INDIAN BLOOD, his delightful and touching memory play, A R Gurney takes a break from his recent anti-Bush salvos (MRS FARNSWORTH, SCREENPLAY) and returns to his treasured hometown of Buffalo … INDIAN BLOOD can be seen as a companion piece to Gurney’s recent political works, for he feels as strongly about what he lost long ago on the shores of Lake Erie as what he now finds daily along the Potomac. Eulogizing the past is just one more way to take a slap at the present.” —Robert Simonson, Time Out

    “INDIAN BLOOD is smart, diverting and very much worth seeing.” —Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

    “In his sweet and civilized memoir of a sixteen-year-old boy in rebellion against the stuffy values of his upper-middle-class family, prolific scribe A R Gurney deftly sidesteps the deathtrap of narcissism that trips up most coming-of-age plays.” —Marilyn Stasio, Daily Variety

    “Much like his fellow American master Horton Foote’s evocations of 1900s Texas towns — in tone and exaction, if not style — Gurney’s expert accounts of genteel American life are compassionate plays. Lighter in emotional fabric than some of his stories, INDIAN BLOOD otherwise proves no exception to Gurney’s excellent body of classy works.” —Michael Sommers, The Star Ledger

    Author(s)

    • A R Gurney

      A R ("Pete") Gurney's work has been produced in New York at Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, and Primary Stages. Among his plays are THE DINING ROOM, THE COCKTAIL HOUR, LOVE LETTERS, SYLVIA, FAR EAST, THE FOURTH WALL, and BIG BILL. Four of his more political plays — O JERUSALEM, MRS FARNSWORTH, SCREEN PLAY, and POST MORTEM — have been produced at the Flea Theater in Tribeca. Gurney also wrote several published novels, as well as the libretto for Michael Torke's opera Strawberry Fields, presented by the New York City Opera. A former Professor of Literature at M I T, he was elected in 2005 to the Theater Hall of Fame and in 2006 to The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He passed away in June 2017. Audio Interview

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 11/1/2006
    Pages 78
    ISBN 9780881453218

    Special Notes

    If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:

    Originally produced by Primary Stages, New York

    In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:

    Indian Blood is produced
    by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
    www.broadwayplaypub.com

    Audio Interview

    Leonard Lopate interviews A R Gurney.

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