Event

Other Desert Cities

A Drama
Written by Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by Nancy Ridgeway

When Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs for Christmas in 2004, she is unable to relax into the prickly, yet loving, embrace of her wealthy California family. Brooke has been in continuous rebellion against her conservative parents - father Lyman, a former Republican ambassador, and mother Polly, a brittle perfectionist - for a long time, moving to the East Coast and adopting liberal political beliefs, but she still craves their approval. She is anxious about revealing her publishing plans for her new memoir, about the suicide of her beloved brother Henry, who was involved in an anti-war bombing of a draft board during the Vietnam War and brought disgrace to his unforgiving mother and father. Over the course of Christmas Eve, Brook spars with her parents, reminisces with her charming younger brother Trip, and receives the dubious emotional support of her alcoholic Aunt Silda. When the news of Brookes memoir s revealed, Polly and Lyman are faced with a choice -- either reveal a shocking secret that they have kept

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