05/17/2008
THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
by ALICE AUSTEN, Resident Playwright
Directed by: Edward Sobel
A man grows to adulthood in the shadow of family tragedy and a powerful and unrelenting father. As he later sorts through the wreckage of a half-lived life as a minister grappling with his faith, he moves ever closer to a confrontation with his father over the war he never fought. Set in the Pacific Northwest to music begun in one era and finished in the next, three generations of men confront the question of what it means to be a man, to be a father and to be a son.
ALICE AUSTEN's play “Backwards” opened the Woodstock Fringe Festival in New York this past summer and is the 2008 featured play for the Montgomery Davis Series at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Her play “Water,” produced by Chicago Dramatists, received a 2007 Jeff Award nomination for Best New Work. Ms. Austen is a recipient of a 2006 Royal Court Theatre Residency.
