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Last weekend to catch this play:
“Family Furniture” will be performed on Saturday, July 17, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 18, at 2 p.m.
Tickets: General $20, Art Center members and seniors, $18
For reservations, call 805-640-8797.
Special to the Ojai Valley News
In one scene of Ojai Art Center Theater’s latest live play, “Family Furniture,” as Claire and son Nick clean up porch furniture, Nick wonders aloud why his parents don’t just buy new furniture. Claire replies, “There’s something resonant about using old family things.”
In playwright A.R. Gurney’s look at family life in Buffalo, he examines the older generation’s desire to keep things the way they are versus the younger generation’s aim to try new things. The play deals with infidelity, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and an unplanned pregnancy. The family struggles trying to keep things as “normal” as possible, something that upper class WASP families in the button-down ’50s f