Frank's Home
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 30, 2007
Closed Feb 18, 2007
Opened Jan 30, 2007
Closed Feb 18, 2007
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Robert Falls directs the world premiere of Frank's Home, by Richard Nelson.
It is summer, 1923, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright has recently left Chicago for California, determined to embrace Hollywood's youthful zest and mend broken relationships with his adult children. He has recently completed his latest "wonder of the world" -- Tokyo's Imperial Hotel -- and is poised to settle down and embrace his new home. But his splintered family still holds deep-seeded resentments. Then news arrives of an earthquake in Japan that has leveled his prized hotel. Or has it? A stunning new play from one of America's best contemporary playwrights, Frank's Home is a lyrical, heartbreaking story about one of our greatest, if less than perfect, visionaries -- a man who created a new architectural vocabulary but couldn't create a home for himself and his family.
Presented in association with Chicago's Goodman Theater.
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"I'm not good with people," the architect Frank Lloyd Wright says early on in Richard Nelson's highly compelling drama Frank's Home. While on its face, the comment applies only to Wright's drawing skills, it rather baldly announces Nelson's thesis. Once again, we're asked to come to terms with a great artist whose genius is in inverse proportion to his relationship skills.
It's a credit to Nelson, the uncompromising Peter Weller -- returning to the New York stage after a prolonged absence to play Wright -- and director Robert Falls that Frank's Home doesn't play as a complete apologia for Wright's callous behavior towards his family, lovers, friends, and clients. Instead, what's delivered [...]