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Other desert cities : a play in two acts / by Jon Robin Baitz ; introduction by Honor Moore

By:

Baitz, Jon Robin, , 1961-

Contributor(s):

Moore, Honor, , 1945-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Grove Press , c 2011.Description: 57 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9780802145659

Subject(s):

Play

DDC classification:

812.54 BAI

LOC classification:

MLCS 2014/40413 (P)

Awards:

Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding new off-Broadway play.

Summary: In OTHER DESERT CITIES, Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents after a six-year absence. A once-promising novelist, she announces to her family the imminent publication of a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history - a wound that her parents don't want reopened.Brooke has come home to draw a line in the sand and is daring her family to cross it. Her brother won't play her game; her aunt knows way too much, and her parents fall into all their old routines as they plead with her to keep their story quiet. In this family, secrets are currency and everyone is rich.In simplest terms, the play is about a girl who comes home to the desert with a story about where she is from, who her people really are, what she thinks they really are. Her parents represent an Establishment that she feels has betrayed this country. She goes to war with them, and blood is spilled.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	812.54 BAI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		025970

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In OTHER DESERT CITIES, Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents after a six-year absence. A once-promising novelist, she announces to her family the imminent publication of a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history - a wound that her parents don't want reopened.Brooke has come home to draw a line in the sand and is daring her family to cross it. Her brother won't play her game; her aunt knows way too much, and her parents fall into all their old routines as they plead with her to keep their story quiet. In this family, secrets are currency and everyone is rich.In simplest terms, the play is about a girl who comes home to the desert with a story about where she is from, who her people really are, what she thinks they really are. Her parents represent an Establishment that she feels has betrayed this country. She goes to war with them, and blood is spilled.

Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding new off-Broadway play.

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