The setting is a farmhouse in the American West, inhabited by a family who has enough to eat but not enough to satisfy the other hungers that bedevil them. The father is a drunk; the mother a frowzy slattern; the daughter precocious beyond her years; and the son a deranged idealist. As the family decides to sell the house to raise money, the mother talks of running off to Europe or Mexico; the father sobers up and tries to take control; the daughter is blown up in the family car; and the son is left brutalized and bloodied. In the end the characters become a metaphor for the underside of American life—benighted innocents pursuing a dream that remains beyond their reach. Winner of the 1977 Obie Award for Best New American Play.
Theatre Raleigh is at 6638 Old Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC.
Bull Durham, A New Musical (9/10/24-9/22/24)
TR In Concert: Julie Benko (8/3/24-8/3/24)
Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (7/17/24-7/28/24)
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (7/17/24-7/17/24)
TR In Concert: Anne Scaramuzzo – Mother Knows Best (6/29/24-6/29/24)
TR In Concert: Seth Rudetsky - Seth's Bit Fat Broadway Show (6/22/24-6/22/24)
Jane Eyre (5/29/24-6/9/24)
Tick, Tick...BOOM! (4/10/24-4/21/24)
Tick Tick Boom! (4/10/24-4/21/24)
TR In Concert: The Music of Sam Cooke (3/21/24-3/24/24)
TR In Concert: Stephanie J. Block (12/7/24-12/7/24)
TR In Concert: Eva Noblezada (3/8/25-3/8/25)
Videos
Bull Durham, A New Musical
Theatre Raleigh (9/10 - 9/22) | ||
HAUGHEY/GREGORY
Burning Coal Theatre (10/14 - 10/23) | ||
Antibiotic
Studio 1 (11/1 - 11/3) | ||
A Beautiful Noise
Durham Performing Arts Center (1/7 - 1/12) | ||
Curse of the Starving Class
Theatre Raleigh (11/6 - 11/17) | ||
Raleigh Fringe Festival
Raleigh Fringe Festival (9/20 - 9/22) | ||
The Rainmaker
Burning Coal Theatre Company (12/5 - 12/22) | ||
ERNANI
Meymandi Concert Hall, Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts (11/10 - 11/10) | ||
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