What Do We Need to Talk About?
by Richard Nelson

In the midst of our unsettled world, The Apple Family, last seen in 2014, return; though not over the dinner table, but via Zoom.

This hour-long play picks them up in the midst of their now suspended and quarantined lives.

They talk about grocery shopping, friends lost, new ventures on a hoped-for horizon, all during a time when human conversation (and theater) may be more needed that ever before.

The Apple Family plays: “No previous works of theater have been topical in the resonant and specific ways of the Apple Family plays… They are a rare and radiant mirror of the way we live…”Ben Brantley, The New York Times The critics on The Apple Family’s first Zoom play, WHAT DO WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT?

viewed over 80,000 times in over 30 countries: “Infinitely Poignant.”The New York Times, Critics Pick “The First Great Original Play of Quarantine.”

The New Yorker “The best example of Zoom theatre I have watched so far.”The Guardian, Five Stars “It’s almost like you are watching a new art form being born.”

Vogue “It couldn’t be more relevant to how we are right now.”

The Washington Post “Brilliant Theater on Zoom.”

Daily Beast “Stakes claim as first powerful drama of the pandemic.”Deadline “Immensely tender and beautifully constructed new drama that responds directly to the current situation.”Financial Times