Stage Write

“We all live with each other’s divergent truths.” As the Wyeth family gathers in California for the holidays tensions run high. Even in the midst of friendly banter there is a portentous air in the family’s relations. Things seem smooth on the surface, but a barrage of cutting remarks and shared dirty looks quickly pulls the curtain back on this “happy” family. Soon we learn that the daughter, Brooke, is a talented author whose latest highly anticipated novel is about to be published. No one in the family has been able to read it yet and when they learn that it’s about a traumatic event in their past all niceties fall away and the claws come out.   Other Desert Cities is in a similar vein as previous Indiana Repertory Theatre productions, The House that Jack Built and God of Carnage. It deals with tense verbal sparring and delicate family relationships. It presents the inevitable fact that when we return to our parents’ homes we revert to childhood personality types, the...

The Indiana Repertory Theatre has announced its season for 2013/2014. There is a great mix of shows. To buy tickets or find out more information visit their site here . The Crucible – SEPTEMBER 17 - OCTOBER 13 It's the American classic of fear and unchecked accusation. Written as an allegory of early 50s McCarthyism, Miller’s dramatization of the Salem witch trials of 1692 has continued to resonate with generations since. An Iliad – OCTOBER 16 - NOVEMBER 16 Homer’s saga of the Trojan War brought to life by a lone poet telling tales of human loss and folly, connecting it to our era with searing images and words of wars and bloodshed. A Christmas Carol – NOVEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 24 The beloved classic returns. And Then They Came for Me  – JANUARY 17 - FEBRUARY 23 Eva Schloss and Ed Silverberg, friends of Anne Frank, were caught up in the nightmare of the Holocaust but lived to tell of lives spent in hiding and the horrors of the concentration camps. James...