Sweet and Sad
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 11, 2011
Closed Sep 25, 2011
Opened Sep 11, 2011
Closed Sep 25, 2011
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Last season in That Hopey Changey Thing, Richard Nelson (Conversations in Tusculum, James Joyce's The Dead) introduced Public LAB audiences to the liberal Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York, as they gathered for dinner on Election Night, 2010. Now, in Sweet and Sad, Nelson continues the story of the Apples over Sunday lunch on September 11, 2011. His second in a series of plays about the immediate present and the ever-changing state of the nation, Sweet and Sad explores what the Apple family has lost since the attacks, and what they remember.
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Richard Nelson's Sweet and Sad, now at the Public Theatre, is evidence that the playwright's prospective trilogy featuring the conversations of the Rhinebeck, New York-based Apple clan -- which began last year with The Hopey Changey Thing -- is shaping up as a significant, dramatic look at the way we live now.
More cogently, this play is Nelson's urgent take on the nation's shared experience of life after 9/11. The work, obviously and intentionally based on the plays of Anton Chekhov -- in particular, The Three Sisters -- features the six Apple family members at a buffet dinner before attending a memorial service.
Under Nelson's own stunning direction, this finely-turned ensemble --[...]