Other Desert Cities
by Jon Robin Baitz

Name: Other Desert Cities
Brand: Jon Robin Baitz
SKU: 9780822226055
Rating: 3.89 (1176 reviews)

Broadway Off-Broadway West End

Other Desert Cities Book Cover — Other Desert Cities Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 mins Present Day Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American

Awards & Recognition

Pulitzer Prize Tony Award

Finalist: 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! One 2012 Tony Award Nominee: Five 2012 Tony Awards, including Best Play

Synopsis

THE STORY: Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt.

Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the f

Press Reviews

"Astutely drawn… juicy and surprising."
— New York Daily News

"The most richly enjoyable new play for grown-ups that New York has known in many seasons… In his most fully realized play to date, Mr. Baitz makes sure our sympathies keep shifting among the members of the wounded family portrayed here. Every one of them emerges as selfish, loving, cruel, compassionate, irritating, charming and just possibly heroic. Other Desert Cities leaves you feeling both moved and gratifyingly sated."
— The New York Times

"Spending time with these messed-up, complicated people is a genuine pleasure."
— New York Post

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Polly Wyeth Whip-smart.	—	—	Whip-smart.
Lyman Wyeth Brooke’s oak-like father, sturdy in the way of old Californians of a particular type.	male	—	Brooke’s oak-like father, sturdy in the way of old Californians of a particular type.
Silda Grauman Brooke’s mother, elegant and forthright.	female	—	Brooke’s mother, elegant and forthright.
Trip Wyeth Brooke’s younger brother; a bright, funny man, perhaps a decade her junior.	female	—	Brooke’s younger brother; a bright, funny man, perhaps a decade her junior.
Brooke Wyeth An attractive and dry woman.	female	—	An attractive and dry woman.