Synopsis
The Assembled Parties
Published by Theatre Communications Group
5 Male 3 Female
Meet the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980
In an opulent apartment overlooking Central Park, former movie star Julie and her sister-in-law Faye bring their families together for a traditional holiday dinner on a night when things don't go as planned
Twenty years later - as 2001 approaches - the Bascovs's seemingly picture-perfect life may be about to crumble
An incisive portrait of a family grasping for stability at the dawn of a new millennium
REVIEWS
"The Assembled Parties is Greenberg's most richly emotional work in years, and the most beautifully detailed" ~ New York magazine
"This tragicomedy shocks us into realizing how hungry we have been for witty and wounded grown-ups who toss off gorgeously written observations without knowing how little we know about what we think we know" ~ Newsday
THE AUTHOR
Richard Greenberg has written two dozen plays in his thirty-year career, including Take Me Out (Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award, NY Drama Critics Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award)
The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award),
(L.A. Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist)And The American Plan, and many more