“CVRep’s production of Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities takes an in-depth look at the gnawing pain and dysfunction long-held secrets can create in families—and what can happen when those secrets finally revealed. The play opened on Broadway in 2011, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The story centers around the Wyeth family. It’s Christmas Eve 2004, and retirees Polly and Lyman are hosting a small get-together at their Palm Springs home. Lyman is a former actor who became active in Republican politics. Polly, also a Republican, is a tennis-playing socialite who once wrote a series of comedic movies for MGM back in the 1960s. Her former writing partner is her liberal sister, Silda, a recovering alcoholic who’s now living with the Wyeths. The sisters are estranged due to their polar-opposite political beliefs…”
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