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.
Theatre Raleigh is at 6638 Old Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC.
What We Leave Behind Developmental Reading (1/24/25-1/25/25)
Gatsby’s New Year’s Eve Party (12/31/24-12/31/24)
Holiday Cabaret (12/12/24-12/15/24)
TR In Concert: Stephanie J. Block (12/7/24-12/7/24)
Curse of the Starving Class (11/6/24-11/17/24)
Bull Durham, A New Musical (9/10/24-9/22/24)
TR In Concert: Julie Benko (8/3/24-8/3/24)
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (7/17/24-7/17/24)
Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (7/17/24-7/28/24)
TR In Concert: Anne Scaramuzzo – Mother Knows Best (6/29/24-6/29/24)
TR In Concert: Melvin Gray Jr – Dreaming Big (2/8/25-12/8/24)
TR In Concert: Seth Rudetsky – Divas by the Decade (2/14/25-2/14/25)
TR In Concert: Eva Noblezada (3/8/25-3/8/25)
TR In Concert: Oren and Krystin Bailey (3/15/25-3/15/25)
Videos
Something's Afoot
Studio 1 (2/28 - 3/9) | ||
Some Like It Hot
DPAC (6/17 - 6/22) | ||
TR In Concert: Oren and Krystin Bailey
Theatre Raleigh (3/15 - 3/15) | ||
TR In Concert: Eva Noblezada
Theatre Raleigh (3/8 - 3/8) | ||
Beetlejuice
DPAC - Durham Performing Arts Center (3/18 - 3/23) | ||
The Wiz
DPAC - Durham Performing Arts Center (8/5 - 8/10) | ||
FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, Martin Marietta Center for the Arts (1/31 - 2/2) | ||
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