The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath (Play) production archive for QTIX code T56123665. Details of all The Grapes of Wrath archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S1062603960

Archive Listings

15 Oct 10
to
30 Oct 10

Mercury Theatre
Colchester, Essex
Performance Details => Venue archive

Details

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.

Cast/Performers

Christine Absalom, Ignatius Anthony, Roger Delves-Broughton, David Tarkenter, Tim Treslove

Creatives/Company

Book by: John Steinbeck
Company: Mercury Theatre Company
Director: Tony Casement
Sound: Marcus Christensen

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

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