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GRADUATION PRODUCTION
15 - 23 October 2004 | Parade Theatre
by Frank Galati | Dir. John Clark | from the novel by John Steinbeck
| Friday, 15 October 2004 |
7:30:00 PM |
| Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
2:00:00 PM |
| Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
7:30:00 PM |
| Tuesday, 19 October 2004 |
7:30:00 PM |
| Wednesday, 20 October 2004 |
2:00:00 PM |
| Wednesday, 20 October 2004 |
7:30:00 PM |
| Thursday, 21 October 2004 |
7:30:00 PM |
| Friday, 22 October 2004 |
7:30:00 PM |
| Saturday, 23 October 2004 |
2:00:00 PM |
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) is one of America's greatest novelists. His masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath (1940) is an epic story of an emigrant farming family forced off their land in the Oklahoma Dust-bowl trying to reach 'the promised land' of California.
The book became a classic John Ford film in 1940, starring Henry Fonda. It was dramatised by Frank Galati in 1989 for a production by the Chicago theatre company Steppenwolf.
"But if we go, where'll we go? How'll we go? We got no money. We're sorry said the owner men. The bank, the fifty-thousand-acre owner can't be responsible. You're on land that isn't yours...maybe you can go on relief. Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange...why don't you go there? And the owner men started their cars and rolled away.
The tenent men squatted down on their hams again to mark the dust with a stick, to figure, to wonder."
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