Sylvia by a.r. gurney review
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Sylvia (play)
Play by A.R. Gurney
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Sylvia is a play by A.
R. Gurney. It premiered in 1995 off-Broadway.
Sylvia by a.r. gurney review
The subject is "Sylvia", a dog, the couple who adopts her, and the resultant comedy.
Background
Gurney said that the play had been rejected by many producers before the Manhattan Theatre Club produced it, because "it equated a dog with a woman, and to ask a woman to play a dog was not just misogynist, but blatantly sexist." Gurney added that he did not think that way.
He noted that the play has a "timely message of the need to connect in an increasingly alien and impersonal world. 'There is a need to connect, not only to a dog but to other people through the dog.'"[1]
In an article for the 2nd Story Theatre in Warren, Rhode Island, Eileen Warburton wrote that "'Sylvia' is a love story, of course, or at least a story about a man’s relationship with one of those magical animals people in stories so often meet just w