Performance

Venue	Royal & Derngate
Town	Northampton
County	Northamptonshire
From	9th May 2017
Opened	10th May 2017
To	20th May 2017
When	19:45. May 10 at 19:00. Thu, Sat Mats 14:30
Royal & Derngate (V449)
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Date of change: 9 May 17 - T1952919419

The Grapes of Wrath

Work:: The Grapes of Wrath (S1062603960)

The epic story of the Joads journey across America is both a moving family saga and an extraordinary evocation of rural life during the Great Depression. Returning home from prison after killing a man in a drunken brawl, Tom Joad finds his family about to join the great exodus from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Like thousands of others, the Joads have their farm repossessed by the bank after the crops fail yet again. Now, three generations of the Joad family are left with no choice but to pile all their worldly goods onto a broken down truck and head west on Route 66, refugees in their own country. Held together by their indomitable matriarch, Ma Joad, they make for California, lured by tales of unlimited work and prosperity amidst the fruit groves and vineyards. Instead, their hopes and dreams - and lives - are shattered by what they find. Steinbeck s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is one of the greatest celebrations of the dignity and the endurance of the human spirit ever written. Famously filmed by John Ford, with Henry Fonda as Tom.

Book by

John Steinbeck

Production:: (T1952919419)

Producer	Nottingham Playhouse
Producer	Nuffield Southampton Theatres
Producer	Royal and Derngate Northampton
Producer	West Yorkshire Playhouse
Adapted by	Frank Galati
Director	Abbey Wright
Director	Scott Hurran (JMK assistant director)
Design	Laura Hopkins
Musical Director	Matt Regan
Music	Matt Regan
Lighting	Nigel Edwards
Sound	David Gregory
Director	John Ross (movement director)
Director	Ruth O'Dowd (casting director)
Director	Philip D'Orleans (fight director)
Stage Manager	Ian Slater
Performer	Ben Bland (Connie)
Performer	Daniel Booroff (Noah)
Performer	Brendan Charleson (Casy)
Performer	Charlie Folorunsho (Pa)
Performer	Shiv Jalota (Al)
Performer	Jim Kitson (Uncle John)
Performer	Pamela Merrick (Granma / Elizabeth Sandry)
Performer	Amy Molloy (Rose of Sharon)
Performer	Harry Napier (Actor / Musician)
Performer	Alexander Newland (Muley / Ma Going Back / Narrator)
Performer	Heronimo Sehmi (Grampa)
Performer	Andre Squire (Tom Joad)
Performer	Julia Swift (Ma)

Listing:: L1926445218

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