The Grapes of Wrath
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.
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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 TimesMajestic...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.
\ From Barnes & NobleJohn 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.\ \ \ \ \ \ NY 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.\ \ \ NY PostThis is, overall, a thrilling theatrical achievement that gets its power from the still sharp relevance of its human message...\ \ \ \ \ NY MagazineTHE GRAPES OF WRATH is a lesson in history, stagecraft, and truth that we cannot afford not to learn.\ \ \ \ \ Time MagazineSteinbeck's best novel.\ \ \ \ \ The New York TimesMajestic...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.\ \ \ \ \ New York MagazineThe Grapes of Wrath is a lesson in history, stagecraft, and truth that we cannot afford not to learn.\ \ \ \ \ The New York PostThis is, overall, a thrilling theatrical achievement that gets its power from the still sharp relevance of its human message...\ \ \ \ \ Peter Monro JackIt is a very long novel, the longest that Steinbeck has written, and yet it reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum. Steinbeck has written a novel from the depths of his heart with a sincerity seldom equaled.-- New York Times Books of the Century, 1939\ \ \ \ \ Time MagazineSteinbeck's best novel.\ \
