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In the shadow of World War II, architect William Levitt envisioned a new American town in a
Long Island potato field. After an extensive and spirited development effort, thousands of
Levitt “Cape Cod” homes were built with scrap materials. Each carefully modeled home was
designed to serve the needs of the modern family. They were sold for $6,000 to battle-weary
GIs with the hope of a new life-and as a means of forgetting recent trauma.
It is nearly half a century later. When Kevin, the grandson of a combat veteran, returns
early from yet another college, he learns that his deeply troubled sister is about to be
married. With renewed hope, he attempts to reconcile his family with the abusive father who
left them years before. Amidst the thin walls of their Levittown home, the members of this
beleaguered family are forced to confront a concealed history and the failure of the tidy
truths they have desperately embraced.
Long Island potato field. After an extensive and spirited development effort, thousands of
Levitt “Cape Cod” homes were built with scrap materials. Each carefully modeled home was
designed to serve the needs of the modern family. They were sold for $6,000 to battle-weary
GIs with the hope of a new life-and as a means of forgetting recent trauma.
It is nearly half a century later. When Kevin, the grandson of a combat veteran, returns
early from yet another college, he learns that his deeply troubled sister is about to be
married. With renewed hope, he attempts to reconcile his family with the abusive father who
left them years before. Amidst the thin walls of their Levittown home, the members of this
beleaguered family are forced to confront a concealed history and the failure of the tidy
truths they have desperately embraced.
Margo Passalaqua and Cecelia Riddett
Joe Viviani and Cecelia Riddett
| Curzon Dobell, Margo Passalaqua, Brian Barnhart |
Curzon Dobell and Ian Tooley
Joe Viviani and Joe Fuer
2006 Production at Axis Company
2009 Production at Theatre at Saint Clements
