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Alan Hruska, director of Nola and The Warrior Class, returns with his new film, REUNION. The film concerns a group of smart and successful people, all members of a Yale secret society, who meet years after graduation to explore – and rationalize – who they have become.  As old wounds open and their dead friend’s secret is revealed, they learn the reality of the past and the reason love and happiness have eluded them.

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The Story

Highlights:

Writer and director Alan Hruska talks about the story, the plot, the script and the characters of Reunion.  He describes the background and setting that reveal the action of the screenplay.  Hruska details his own “reunion” and the personal journey that lead him to this piece.

Happenings:

Alan Hruska attended Yale and graduated from the law school in 1955.  Ten years ago he attended a reunion of the members of a senior secret society to which he belonged.  This experience left a deep enough impression and sent Hruska to the keyboard with a torrent of ideas and a format to reveal his personal concepts and philosophy.

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Alan Hruska, the writer-director of two independent films, Nola (Tribeca Film Festival, 2003) and The Warrior Class (Hamptons Film Festival 2005) was also the director of the recent off-Broadway production of Waiting for Godot, author of the novel, Borrowed Time (Dial Press, 1986), co-founder and chairman of the book publishing company, Soho Press, and a member of the Actors Studio, Playwrights and Directors Unit. 

The New York Times said Hruska’s Godot was “a pleasure to watch” and “Under Alan Hruska’s direction [Gogo and Didi] have the dynamic of an old married couple, comfortable and quarrelsome and mutually dependent.”  The New York Post said “just the right mixture of pathos and comic bluster,” “an admirable production that well serves the work’s brilliant combination of broad humor and existential despair.”

Soho Press has published the works of many prominent British authors, including Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Sue Townsend, Jake Arnott, Peter Lovesey and Judith Grossman.

 

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