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Not-So-Happy Meal; Two couples review their long-standing relationships in Dinner With Friends.

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From: Coast Weekly
Date: 20030312
Author:Anonymous

The 18th-century English author Horace Walpole wrote, "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." Donald Margulies' Dinner With Friends, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2000, is a little of both. The four-character examination of two married couples, and the effects that one couple's divorce is having on all parties concerned, is a melancholy bit of work that also contains moments of overriding humor.

While the current production of Dinner by the Monterey Peninsula College drama department is creditable, it's also missing the ingredients to make it a truly ...

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