The Caltech Playreaders

2022-2023: The 72nd Season

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

6:30 pm PDT

37 Postcards

Written by Michael McKeever

Directed by Todd Brun

Avery returns home after eight years abroad to introduce his fiancée, Gillian, to his erratic family: his parents, Evelyn and Stanford, Aunt Ester, and his 97-year-old grandmother. He finds that they have gone even further off the rails than when he left: a daft, though lovable, band of eccentrics who seem only distantly connected to reality, living in a house that itself is tilting ever more askew. The homecoming, at first comical, turns into something else altogether, a genuine reckoning for all with both the joys and the painful realities of life. This family's denial of reality evokes the line from Man of La Mancha: "perhaps maddest of all is seeing life as it is and not as it should be."

"37 Postcards" is presented by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc.

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