OTHER DESERT CITIES IN THE WINDY CITY

A smart new play of high drama, serious laughter and dazzling repartee makes it’s NZ premiere in Wellington later this month. Other Desert Cities was one of the hottest tickets in New York as Pulitzer Prize finalist and creator of hit TV series, Brothers & Sisters and contributor on The West Wing, Jon Robin Baitz took America by storm with his Broadway debut. Nominated for five Tony Awards, this award-winning play, which has just opened to rave reviews in London, now makes its New Zealand premiere at Circa Theatre in Wellington.

Other Desert Cities opens in Circa One on Saturday 19 April, with a stellar cast of Catherine Downes (The Year of Magical Thinking), Michelle Langstone (The Almighty Johnsons), Jeffrey Thomas (The Hobbit), Emma Kinane (Tribes), and Paul Waggott (Red).

It is Christmas Eve 2004 and in the sun-drenched comfort of Palm Springs, California, Lyman Wyeth, ex-movie star and friend of Ronald Reagan, and his fiercely Republican wife Polly have it all. Novelist  daughter, Brooke, is back home to celebrate the holidays with her parents, her TV producer brother and Aunt Silda, a recovering alcoholic. But the warm desert air turns chilly when Brooke announces she’s written a tell-all memoir about the most painful chapter of the family’s buried past that threatens to destroy everything her famous parents hold dear. Love, loyalty, and reality collide as old wounds are re-opened, childhood memories are tested, and the Wyeth clan learns that some secrets cannot stay buried forever.

A witty, clever and deeply affecting tour-de-force that that springs surprises to the very end with electrifying results Other Desert Cities has been hailed as one of the best new plays of the decade.

OTHER DESERT CITIES
By Jon Robin Baltz
Directed by Ross Jolly
19April – 17 May

Circa Theatre
1 Taranaki Street, Wellington      

$25 specials – Friday 18 April – 8pm and Sunday 20 April – 4pm

Performance times:
Tuesday & Wednesday – 6.30pmThursday, Friday, Saturday – 8pm
Sunday – 4pm

Ticket Prices: $25 – $46      

Bookings:           
Phone: (04) 801 7992                  
www.circa.co.nz

 

 

 

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