←Recommendations of Family Dinner

  • Brent Alles: Family Dinner by Paul Braverman
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    The dialogue is just terrific and tremendously funny. The usual send-up of rich fools. And THEN we get to the genre of it all, and that's also thrilling. The play builds to a suitable crescendo, and I loved the fact that I was laughing all the way to the horrific end. An excellent werewolf play. (I would say something about it being howlingly funny, but well, I'd like to think I'm better than that. But probably not.)

    The dialogue is just terrific and tremendously funny. The usual send-up of rich fools. And THEN we get to the genre of it all, and that's also thrilling. The play builds to a suitable crescendo, and I loved the fact that I was laughing all the way to the horrific end. An excellent werewolf play. (I would say something about it being howlingly funny, but well, I'd like to think I'm better than that. But probably not.)

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  • John Busser: Family Dinner by Paul Braverman
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    09.17.25 - Ah the family dinner. Especially when dinner IS family. Paul Braverman's script is light, funny food-for-thought. Maybe you can't pick your family, but I guess you CAN pick where they eat. Or what they eat. Or WHO they eat.I laughed out loud numerous times, and even though poor Don (instead of the more fortunate-named Dawn) is having to put up with his last family dinner, at least he can go believing they were full of himself. A laugh inducer that'll go down smooth.

    09.17.25 - Ah the family dinner. Especially when dinner IS family. Paul Braverman's script is light, funny food-for-thought. Maybe you can't pick your family, but I guess you CAN pick where they eat. Or what they eat. Or WHO they eat.I laughed out loud numerous times, and even though poor Don (instead of the more fortunate-named Dawn) is having to put up with his last family dinner, at least he can go believing they were full of himself. A laugh inducer that'll go down smooth.

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  • Kieran Khanna: Family Dinner by Paul Braverman
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    This was awesome!! The children all come together expecting to be left with money from their late father turns out to be something completely unexpecting, yet gut wrenching and wild! The characters are all so funny and engaging with each other! Paul Braverman gives us all a juicy and savory play worth sinking our teeth into! Awesome work Paul!

    This was awesome!! The children all come together expecting to be left with money from their late father turns out to be something completely unexpecting, yet gut wrenching and wild! The characters are all so funny and engaging with each other! Paul Braverman gives us all a juicy and savory play worth sinking our teeth into! Awesome work Paul!

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  • Philip Middleton Williams: Family Dinner by Paul Braverman
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    Paul Braverman is by far one of the wittiest playwrights I know and have had the pleasure to read his plays and see on stage. This short piece has it all: humor, engaging characters, and dialogue that keeps you riveted. And while it becomes pretty clear where he’s going, the outcome is still a wonderful twist and well worth waiting for.

    Paul Braverman is by far one of the wittiest playwrights I know and have had the pleasure to read his plays and see on stage. This short piece has it all: humor, engaging characters, and dialogue that keeps you riveted. And while it becomes pretty clear where he’s going, the outcome is still a wonderful twist and well worth waiting for.

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  • Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn: Family Dinner by Paul Braverman
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    This dialogue is so funny it will disarm you. Some family traditions are unshakeable and terrifying!

    This dialogue is so funny it will disarm you. Some family traditions are unshakeable and terrifying!

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  • John Patrick Bray: Family Dinner by Paul Braverman
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    A family gathers for dinner. Dad has passed, and now grown children have expectations of money being bequeathed; however, these expectations are shattered, as they learn Dad's dark secret: it's something terrible, something that may be passed down to each generation. Braverman's writing is tight and the script is hilarious. Some of the lines had me HOWLing. (Sorry, Paul!) I hope to see this play staged! A perfect horror-comedy!

    A family gathers for dinner. Dad has passed, and now grown children have expectations of money being bequeathed; however, these expectations are shattered, as they learn Dad's dark secret: it's something terrible, something that may be passed down to each generation. Braverman's writing is tight and the script is hilarious. Some of the lines had me HOWLing. (Sorry, Paul!) I hope to see this play staged! A perfect horror-comedy!

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