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Other Desert Cities – Dark secrets threatened with exposure

If you drive along the eastbound Interstate 10 highway in California, you’ll see signs for Indio and various "other Desert Cities" in the dry, dusty Coachella Valley.

Originally called Love and Mercy, the play premiered Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, part of the Lincoln Center Theater, in early 2011. With Stockard Channing as Polly Wyeth, it was a sell-out.

Honoured with the title Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play by the Outer Critics Circle, the play soon transferred to Broadway where it enjoyed great critical acclaim. Opening at the Booth Theatre, like the Off Broadway production it was directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello. It achieved five nominations in the 2012 Tony Awards: Best Play, Best Actress in a Play, Best Scenic Design, Best Lighting Design and Best Featured Actress in a Play, won by Judith Light. It was also a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testament to its appeal, sensitivity, and elegant writing.

Other Desert Cities - The story

A wonderfully observed comedy-drama, the play revolves around Christmas 2004. Solid republicans Polly and Lyman Wyeth and their son Trip are getting ready for a family gathering in Palm Springs, California, joined for the first time in six years by their daughter Brooke. Brooke’s Liberal aunt Silda, a recovering alcoholic who has been released from rehab for the celebrations, is there too, and the ideological temperature is already rising.

When Brooke announces her plans to publish a memoir of family life, they are horrified. Her actions threaten the family’s very roots, exposing a tragedy they are not ready to acknowledge, remember or discuss, never mind make public: Brooke’s brother Henry, deep in radical underground subculture, committed suicide years ago. And the wound hasn’t healed.

As the Dallas Voice newspaper says:

“Mom Polly, a retired writer of cheesy ’60s teen comedies and dad Leland, a former actor-turned-politician, reared two troubled but free-thinking kids: Trip, a giddy producer of trash TV and Brooke, a novelist dismissed as a one-hit-wonder after 10 years without a new best seller. But Brooke has the making of a potboiler in her hands: A memoir about the family’s un-talked-about third child, Henry, whose youthful indiscretions 30 years earlier have scarred the Wyeths in ways they won’t admit.”

The characters’ discomfort is obvious throughout. It’ll have you squirming in your seat as well as amused, delighted and thoroughly entertained.

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    Saturday,24 May 2014

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Please note the reviews below are from an old production of Other Desert Cities.

Witty, acerbic, well acted and excellent threatre in the round experience!

Reviewed on 19 April 2014 by