Levittown
by Marc Palmieri

Name: Levittown
Brand: Marc Palmieri
SKU: 9780822221890
Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)

Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

90 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings American

Synopsis

When Kevin, the grandson of a World War II combat veteran, returns early from yet another college, he learns that his deeply troubled sister is about to be married.

With renewed hope, he attempts to reconcile his family with the abusive father who left them years before.

Amidst the thin walls of their Levittown home, the members of this beleaguered family are forced to confront a concealed history, the self-destructive nature that has plagued them for generations, and the failure of faiths onto which they have desperately held.

Press Reviews

"Marc Palmieri's LEVITTOWN is as basic and old-fashioned as the houses in the planned communities of the title. There is nothing fancy here as the family secrets are revealed—no incest or fetus buried in the basement—just raw emotion and crippling inability to communicate. You won't stop watching for a second.“ —The New York Times. ”Consistently engrossing…Within those bland, cookie-cutter houses may lurk a hotbed of seething family dysfunction. This is a family that—if its home were a bit more picturesque—could give Eugene O'Neill's and Arthur Miller's clans a run for their money. [Palmieri] has a firm grasp of his characters and their milieu.“ —New York Post. ”We don't typically quibble with Tolstoy, but are unhappy families really so different? Or are they rather like the endless rows of postwar homes that William Levitt built on Long Island? What seemed stable and well-intentioned is revealed as restrictive, slapdash, even claustrophobic. Striking exchanges…distinct characters…“"
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