Other Desert Cities

by Jon Robin Baitz

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"A ... play about a family coming to terms with long held secrets. When a once-promising novelist returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents conflict ensues after she announces the imminent publication of her memoir--a book that focuses on the politically explosive and tragic death of her antiwar-activist brother. With her parents trying to cling to their Reaganesque social status, the family is torn apart and must come to grips with its painful past."--P. [4] of cover.… (more)

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2 Men 3 Women (1) 21st century (1) and blood is spilled. (1) and her parents fall into all their old routines as they plead with her to keep their story quiet. In this family (1) arts-plays (1) arts-theatre (1) Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents after a six-year absence. A once-promising novelist (1) drama (7) ebook (1) family (1) fiction (2) I (1) In OTHER DESERT CITIES (1) library (1) own (1) play (6) plays (8) playscript (1) plitz (1) Produced at The Playhouse (1) read (2) script (2) secrets are currency and everyone is rich.In simplest terms (1) she announces to her family the imminent publication of a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history - a wound that her parents don't want reopened.Brooke has come home to draw a line in the sand and is daring her fami (1) the play is about a girl who comes home to the desert with a story about where she is from (1) theatre (8) what she thinks they really are. Her parents represent an Establishment that she feels has betrayed this country. She goes to war with them (1) who her people really are (1) work O (1) writer B (1)

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New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (Runners Up – Play – 2012)

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"A ... play about a family coming to terms with long held secrets. When a once-promising novelist returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents conflict ensues after she announces the imminent publication of her memoir--a book that focuses on the politically explosive and tragic death of her antiwar-activist brother. With her parents trying to cling to their Reaganesque social status, the family is torn apart and must come to grips with its painful past."--P. [4] of cover.

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