Metroactive » The Grapes of Wrath https://activate.metroactive.com Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:08:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ at Bus Barn Theatre https://activate.metroactive.com/2019/04/the-grapes-of-wrath-at-bus-barn-theatre/ https://activate.metroactive.com/2019/04/the-grapes-of-wrath-at-bus-barn-theatre/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:35:27 +0000 http://wp.blvdscms.com/activate-metroactive-com/?p=123700
Driven from their homes by forces beyond their control, the working class are cloistered in tent cities—plagued by hunger, alcoholism and regularly harassed by local police. In many ways, the best banned book of 1939 resembles the Bay Area of 2019. Los Altos Stage Company presents Frank Galati’s adaptation of arguably the…]]>

Driven from their homes by forces beyond their control, the working class are cloistered in tent cities—plagued by hunger, alcoholism and regularly harassed by local police. In many ways, the best banned book of 1939 resembles the Bay Area of 2019. Los Altos Stage Company presents Frank Galati’s adaptation of arguably the greatest of the Great American Novels—The Grapes of Wrath by Salinas author John Steinbeck. Follow the Joads as they flee their native Oklahoma and the devastation of the Dust Bowl in search of greener pastures out in California. Runs through May 5.

The Grapes of Wrath
Thu, 8pm, $20+
Bus Barn Theatre, Los Altos

 

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