cover photo by Sarah Ainslie

   "If a poem is a form of dense evocational shorthand, Sally Nemeth's HOLY DAYS is a stage poem. It is uncommonly affectingan elegy for the lost souls in the dying plains of Kansas, 1936, who clung to their blighted homesteads like bees to a poisoned hive. Not as a matter of choice, but of Inevitability....
   This is THE GRAPES OF WRATH in reverse. There is not much plot. What there is, is simple and stirring....
   Is there a play in this? There is. Amazingly. A majestic and gripping one...
   There is beauty and wisdom in this little piece...."
Sylvie Drake, Los Angeles Times

   "Small miracles are no less wondrous than their king-size fellows, and Sally Nemeth's HOLY DAYS...provides at least two pocket miracles.
   Imagine a play about Dust Bowl poverty in which nobody says `I reckon', or even owns a rockin' chair. Imagine a play about nobility of human spirit that never sentimentalizes its sufferers, that grants them intelligence and bewilderment, even humor.... A miracle...
   Nemeth is a writer of exceptional interest...."
Thomas O'Connor, Orange County Register

originally produced at the Soho Poly in London, and then by South Coast Rep, Costa Mesa CA

2 M, 2 F

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