Synopsis
A political family confronts its dark history in this Pulitzer Prize-finalist play “with gleaming dialogue [and] tantalizing hints of a dangerous mystery” (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).
Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Brooke Wyeth hasn’t been home to visit her parents in years.
But now she’s back in Palm Springs for Christmas, and she has a startling announcement to make.
Brooke is about to publish a detailed and intimate family memoir—one that will open a wound her politically prominent parents don’t want reopened.
First appearing on Broadway in a hit production starring Stacy Keach and Stockard Channing, Other Desert Cities “examine[s] the fractiousness of American politics through the prism of one family” (David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter).
Themes
- Authorship--Psychological aspects
- Authorship--Psychological aspects--Drama
- Brothers and sisters
- Brothers and sisters--Drama
- Families
- Families--Drama
- Mothers and daughters--Drama
- Mothers and daughters
- PS3552.A393 O84 2011
Performance
Cast
A medium cast size of 9 total roles, 5 female and 4 male roles.
