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
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