Breakfast: The Dining Room - Maid, Father, Liz, Charlie, Mom

This is a scene from A.R. Gurney's "The Dining Room" that takes place during a breakfast in the 1930's. It primarily focuses on a father setting his son straight on the current political situation in the country, and... his teacher.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• dining
• room
• play
• theatre
• depression
• family
• breakfast
• acting
• father

[collegedude04]

The character actual name is charlie, there is also a character in the play by the name of Nick. Whom ever posted the video must have just got the names reversed

[corsairstw]

Yeah, i'm the guy who played the father, and I got the names confused. I'll change it.

[Daveymaccadam]

Poor form, I have seen high school productions of this scene rendered to a far better degree...

[AlexSaysHi2013]

@corsairstw Hey! I'm doing this play as father right now too! A little less intense then yours but you did great man!

[bcrocker33]

@corsairstw

well you did a great job, regardless.  your nuances are fantastic. who is Mr. Johnson? :)

I played Mother, Sally, Peggy, Kate, Ruth...

[banana2cake2]

@bcrocker33 I did a one act play competition and we had an actor who got sick the day before regions, so the assistant director had to learn the entire role in one night and they had to figure out the blocking before the performance! it was crazy

[banana2cake2]

my school's doing this for the summer play! what's cool is one of the guys doing it was in The Blind Side....he was an extra, but still...

[bcrocker33]

con'td... i also find a lot wrong with the script. perhaps, it is due to him putting all of his one acts into one play. i think the script has some underlying meaty parts but they have to be found as well as the humour. but yes, i agree with you about the script generally. i think we all (the royal we in our current production) have that problem as well.

[bcrocker33]

it's so funny how different audiences have different takes. some didn't someof the story and not for "safe" reasons. the comments were more of appreciating the flow and the acting in ours, that's all. i see where you are coming from absolutely. taking it to competition this weekend. we did Sylvia several years ago, and believe me some feathers were ruffled. ;)

[mdoyle1523]

The issue was not the talent or the flow, the issue was the script. Its so "general play". I prefer things with more of a punch, something with more meaning. This just does not have the power and drive that some others do, and it lacks a certain risk. To me this is a "safe show", just something to do when you don't want to ruffle any feathers and i despise that.

[bcrocker33]

i am in this at the adult level. it has received some high praise. not everyone watching it likes the piece itself or Gurney's story for that matter but if it is done with quick transition and people playing their roles properly, the production has promise.

[empirevinyls]

My school just audition to get cast for this show and I am in the process of reading the script myself!! I enjoy it. I watched this to see what it is like!! (: i enjoyed it a lot you guys did tremendous!!! (: