"…easily one of the most compelling dramas to come out of the Humana Festival of New American Plays in recent years."
—Lexington Herald Leader.
SIX YEARS
TWO ACTS. RUNNING TIME TWO HOURS. 4 MEN, 3 WOMEN.
It is 1949 when Phil Granger finally reappears in the small Missouri town he left six years earlier for the unspeakable horrors of World War II. His wife, Meredith, is there to meet him, put him back together…and keep him home. In five scenes spanning twenty-four years of Postwar life, Sharr White takes us on an intimate journey to an unspoken side of the Greatest Generation, chronicling Meredith and Phil Granger's struggles to survive together through the boom of the 1950s, the hope and unbearable losses of the 1960s, and the resounding search for redemption following the Vietnam war.
WORLD PREMIERE
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The 30th Anniversary
Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville March, 2006 Directed by Hal Brooks With Michael J. Reilly, Kelly Mares, Harry Bouvy, Frank Deal, Marni Penning, Stephanie Thompson, Isaac Gardner |
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PHOTOS: HARLAN TAYLOR
MORE PRESS
"This is serious theater, an episodic play that deftly illustrates how the history of the Greatest Generation has sobering current relevance."
—Miami Herald
"This is theater at its thought-provoking, affecting best."
—Newsweek.
"The resonance for White's audiences has been evident…several characters are at the darkening intersection of this drama that some have remarked has the bearing of an Arthur Miller play."
—CNN.com.
"A wrenching look back at twenty-four years
of post World War II America…extremely
well-written, serious slice-of-life drama."
—CurtainUp.
CNN
Variety
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE
DESERET NEWS
SALT LAKE MAGAZINE
—Miami Herald
"This is theater at its thought-provoking, affecting best."
—Newsweek.
"The resonance for White's audiences has been evident…several characters are at the darkening intersection of this drama that some have remarked has the bearing of an Arthur Miller play."
—CNN.com.
"A wrenching look back at twenty-four years
of post World War II America…extremely
well-written, serious slice-of-life drama."
—CurtainUp.
CNN
Variety
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE
DESERET NEWS
SALT LAKE MAGAZINE
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