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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 10, 2010
Closed Dec 12, 2010

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

In Amy Herzog's After the Revolution, the brilliant, promising Emma Joseph proudly carries the torch of her family's Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her blacklisted grandfather. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved.

After the Revolution is a bold and moving portrait of an American family, thrown into an intergenerational tailspin, forced to reconcile a thorny and delicate legacy.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Playwrights Horizons
416 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

A young woman attempts to make sense of her present and plan for the future all the while confronting the past in Amy Herzog's thoughtful
After the Revolution, playing at Playwrights Horizons. The work shines in large part, because Carolyn Cantor's sensitively directed production is filled with a host of exceptional performances, which often mitigate some of the excesses in the piece's overly convenient plotting.

Theatergoers first meet the Joseph clan as they wait for daughter Emma (Katharine Powell) after her law school graduation in the spring of 1999. Her dad Ben (Peter Friedman) and stepmom Mel (Mare Winningham) are talking a mile a minute -- director Cantor beautifully orchestrates [...]


Reviewed by Andy Propst on Nov 11, 2010

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