
Home Front
Greg Owens
THE STORY: It's the end of the Cold War, but for the men and women stationed at an air force base outside of Omaha, the tensions of existence seem to increase each day.
Dean Swift has been transferred to missile silo duty.
Seventy feet underground,
"Reddin puts us on a roller coaster of laughs and irony, giving us a sort of comedy surging with an undertow of real pain.” —New York Post. “Without bearing down too hard, Reddin makes these lives of quiet desperation a powerful and disturbing metaphor for a national identity crisis brought on by collapse of the Iron Curtain.” —The New York Times. “…sour, dangerous, provocative and surprisingly funny.” —Los Angeles Times. “Reddin handles dialogue superbly, particularly in the often-stinging wit…” —Variety. “…melancholy, haunting drama…"
— Orange County Register
Nebraska is a American comedy play written by Keith Reddin and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York, N.Y (1989).
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