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ShowOther Desert Cities
TypeComedy-Drama
Written ByJon Robin Baitz
DirectorJohn Hannon
CompanyPlaycrafters Theatre Company
VenueBoys and Girls Club of the Greater Bellport Area
471 Atlantic Ave
Bellport
OpenedFeb 2018
TimesFridays, Saturdays and Sundays February 16-25, 2018
Ticket Info631-748-7863
DescriptionIt’s December 2004 and Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history – a wound they don't want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it. Every character is smart, quick-witted and deeply flawed. The parents are wealthy, well-connected Republican activists and friends of the Reagans. Lyman Wyeth, an actor known for his death scenes, has been state GOP chair. Polly, his wife and ferocious protector, is a forceful practitioner of tough love – with her children as well as her liberal, alcoholic sister and former screenwriting partner, Silda, now recovering from her latest round of rehab. Brooke is a novelist who's been going through a rough patch of writer's block and a breakdown that involved a long hospital stint. She's home for the holidays,