cover photo by Liz Lauren, compliments of the Victory Gardens Theater
“Joel Drake Johnson’s new play is a sensitively written…portrait of a
fragmented family.
…Johnson balances gallows humor with acute insight and compassion. He creates
characters so real you wonder what will happen to them after the final
blackout—and hope that the healing effects of time will allow parent and
children to reconcile and thus reclaim life’s most fundamental and precious
relationship.”
Albert Williams, The Reader
“The title of Joel Drake Johnson’s new play, THE END OF THE TOUR, may suggest
the final leg in the career of a middle-aged rock band. That is not at all what
it’s about, yet the sense of having outlived one’s usefulness is at the heart of
this tragicomedy…. And even more than that, there is the feeling of being
completely unmoored in the midst of one’s life—while at the same time remaining
hopelessly roped in by one’s family….”
Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
“…THE END OF THE TOUR, an engaging new work…
The dark comedy homes in on the interconnected lives of six characters who
have reached a crossroads where they each must reevaluate their commitment to
each other and decide what direction their own lives will take….
Johnson’s dialogue—sharp and witty—has more than a little ring of truth in it
that may have audience members identifying with the real-life idiosyncracies of
his characters.”
Tom Witom, Lakeland Newspapers
originally produced at The Victory Gardens Theater
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