When:
Saturday, April 25, 2015
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM CT
Where: Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, Ethel M. Barber Theater, 1949 Campus Drive; 10-30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: General Public $25.00; Senior Citizens (62 and over) $22.00; NU Faculty/Staff, Educators $22.00; Full-Time Students $10.00; NU Students (advance purchase only) $5.00
Contact:
Joel Solari
(847) 467-2426
Group: Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
Category: Fine Arts
Description:
Reduced to poverty by the loss of their Oklahoma farm during the Dust Bowl, the Joad family piles their few possessions into a battered old truck and head west for California, hoping to find work and a better life. Led by the willful Ma Joad and her volatile young son Tom, the entire family encounters an epic journey, testing their resilience and calling on the strength in a community that is innately American. John Steinbeck’s classic novel comes to breathtaking life through song, movement and gritty portrayals in a theatrical adventure that is a soaring and deeply moving affirmation of the essential goodness that is the foundation of the American spirit and family.
By Frank Galati from the novel by John Steinbeck
Directed by Aaron Snook