by Jon Robin Baitz
BY ARRANGEMENT WITH CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY,NY.
directed by Barry Park
at Old Mill Theatre, South Perth
August 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19
All performances at 8pm except Sundays, 6th and 13th, which are 2pm matinees
A richly satisfying fine-tuned balance between comedy and intense family drama
Originally Produced by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 2010
Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize
Other Desert Cities examines the lies we tell to protect each other and the damage they cause.
The Wyeth family Christmas holiday erupts when daughter Brooke arrives bearing a soon-to-be-published memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history. It’s a wound they don’t want reopened — the suicide of Brooke’s brother, Henry, who had been involved with the radical underground subculture.
“Baitz’s script sparkles with a deep understanding of the turmoil boiling beneath the surface of his characters and it is chockfull of wonderful lines.” Associated Press
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