The American Dream and The Sandbox
On a narrow cobbled lane ensconced from street traffic in Greenwich Village, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York’s oldest, continuously running Off-Broadway venue has played host to a stellar lineup of productions over the last 80 years. Scripts by greats including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dos Passo, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Beckett, and Mamet have been put into motion here. A-list actors and directors, including John Malkovich, Barbara Streisand, James Earl Jones, Gene Hackman, Kevin Bacon, and Dennis Quaid have also popped into the mix over the decades.
From March 21 thru April 19, 2008, The American Dream and The Sandbox written and directed by Edward Albee are must sees! The Sandbox features a materialistic married couple who stage the fateful demise of the wife’s aged mother. Through exposing clichés in social mores and language, Albee makes the audience feel that they are somehow in on this dastardly deed. Shaking the complacency out of middle-class ethics, American Dream crumbles the fallacy of the “ideal” American family in another jolting murder plot. www.cherrylanetheatre.com
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