Dinner with Friends

Dinner with Friends is a 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning play written by Donald Margulies.

Plot summary
Gabe and Karen, a happily married middle-aged couple, have been friends with Tom and Beth, another married couple, for many years. In fact, it was Gabe and Karen who fixed up their friends in the first place. While having dinner at Gabe and Karen's home one night, Beth tearfully reveals that she is getting a divorce from Tom, who has been unfaithful.

Tom, who had been away on business, finds out that Beth has told their friends about the looming divorce, and hastens to Gabe and Karen's home. Tom and Beth had planned to tell their friends about their breakup together, but Tom now believes that Beth has unfairly presented herself as the wronged party, and feels he must present his own side of the story.

Over the course of the play, we see both couples at different ages and stages of their lives, and we witness the effects of Tom and Beth's breakup on Gabe and Karen, who first feel compelled to choose sides, and then begin to question the strength of their own seemingly tranquil marriage.

Direction: Aliki Danezi Knutsen
Sets: Natassa Chrysafini
Costumes: Lisa Tsouloupa
Light design: Giorgos Lazoglou
Music selection: Giannis Stankoglou
Cast: Christina Pavlidou, Achilleas Grammatikopoulos, Fotis Georgidis, Filio Louvari

(in Greek)