The Grapes of Wrath
February 12 – March 21, 2010
At the Barksdale Theatre in Willow Lawn
Co-produced with Theatre VCU / Part of the Acts of Faith Festival
By Frank Galati
Adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck
Directed by Tawnya Pettiford-Wates
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Winner of the Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award, the story of the Joad family and their flight from the dust bowl of Oklahoma is familiar to all. Desperately proud, but reduced to poverty by the loss of their farm and the Great Depression, the Joads pile their few possessions on a battered old truck and head west for California, hoping to find work and a better life. The play stays true to Steinbeck’s novel and remains a soaring and deeply moving affirmation of the indomitability of the human spirit, and of the essential goodness and strength which—then as now—resides in the hearts and minds of the “common man,” throughout the world. “A thrilling theatrical achievement that gets its power from the still sharp relevance of its human message…” —NY Post
