Event

The City of Coversation

by Anthony Giardina
Opens August 5
Closes August 21
The City of Conversation premiered at Lincoln Center two years ago and is a play that is both timely and timeless. It opens in 1979 in Washington, D.C. when the Capital City was a place where people actually talked to each other; where adversaries fought it out on the Senate floor and then smoothed it out over drinks and hors doeuvres. But it was all about to change. In this play spanning 30 years and six presidential administrations, Hester Ferris throws Georgetown dinner parties that can change the course of Washingtons politics. But when her beloved son suddenly turns up with an ambitious Reaganite girlfriend and a shocking new conservative world view Hester must choose between preserving her family and defending the causes shes spent her whole life fighting for. Anthony Giardina has written a play about politics in a family and family in politics. A searing new drama, The City of Conversation delves into the ever-changing tapestry of U.S. Government and the people who shape it off the senate floor. The Washington Post wrote: The City of Conversation achieves something that eludes many other plays about Washington; a savvy depiction of social skill as political art, in a city that is defined by political scienceGiadinas handiwork presents to the world one of the most fair-minded, even compassionate views of the partisan struggles of the citys political classes youre likely to encounter these day.