Dinner With Friends.
Donald Margulies has said that, like his other works, he wrote Dinner With Friends "to reflect observations I'm having at that time in my life ... All around us, relationships are changing, marriages are breaking up. It's those notions of impermanence, the yearning for something else that I'm tapping into.'' Dinner With Friends has touched audiences around the world for simple reasons: the characters are real. They are normal. They are the people we know and they are people facing their fears; they are exactly like us. The play begins in present day over a luxurious Italian dinner, takes us back in time to earlier days, and then returns to the present, all while exploring the varying tones of the relationships of two couples: Gabe and Karen, and Beth and Tom.
