Like many of the Pulitzer winners I've seen before,
Dinner With Friends -
Donald Margulies' play won the literary prize in 2000 - concerns itself with middle
class American couples spending time in each others' homes. Unlike the others, it
isn't actually about racism, or indeed any subject larger than the relationships we
see on stage. Food writer Gabe (Shaun Dooley) and his wife Karen (Sara Stewart) are
having a friend and her children round for dinner, giving her a blow-by-blow account
of their recent holiday in Italy. It's not the relentlessness of their narrative
that makes Beth (Finty Williams) suddenly burst into tears though: She said the
reason her husband didn't join them at the dinner party was that he was away on
business, but in fact he's left her for another woman, and they're now planning to
get a divorce.
