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Overview
Winner of the 1990 Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award. A powerful and deeply affecting stage version of one of the masterpieces of American literature. Holding to the simplicity and directness of the original novel, the play uses the sparest of technical means to convey its timeless message of the persistence and strength of the human spirit as it battles against the adversities of nature and an uncaring society.Synopsis
Winner of the 1990 Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award. A powerful and deeply affecting stage version of one of the masterpieces of American literature. Holding to the simplicity and directness of the original novel, the play uses the sparest of technical means to convey its timeless message of the persistence and strength of the human spirit as it battles against the adversities of nature and an uncaring society.
The New York Times
Majestic...leaves one feeling that the generosity of spirit he saw in a brutal country is not so much lost as waiting once more to be found.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; became an international bestseller; and inspired an Academy Award-winning movie and an Emmy-winning play. Seventy years have not weakened the emotional force of this gripping fiction about a Dust Bowl family forced to move west during the Great Depression.