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Oct 7, 2022 · Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright Rebecca Gilman and her longtime collaborator, Tony Award-winning director Robert Falls, team up again for their sixth Goodman production—a contemporary portrait of America’s heartland in a time when it feels like everyone’s way of life is in danger of disappearing. Read Content Advisory Info.
- October 7, 2022
The cast of Rebecca Gilman's World Premiere production explore the themes within the play that will inspire us to feel... "SWING STATE is a play that sees you."
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- Goodman Theatre
Sep 18, 2023 · Under the deft direction of Robert Falls, the all-star cast mines the play's themes of loss, longing, and depression with a quiet edge and surprising humor. Swing State, named in part for its divisive political setting in Wisconsin, also represents the liminal space between two opposing truths. Peg, a recent widow, swings from bouts of ...
Sep 17, 2023 · A play about a widow who wants to protect her natural prairie from encroaching farmland and a young ex-convict she takes in. The play explores themes of ecology, politics, and community, but lacks the wildness and complexity of its subject matter.
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Oct 17, 2022 · Anne E. Thompson, Kirsten Fitzgerald and Mary Beth Fisher in Rebecca Gilman’s play “Swing State” at the Goodman Theatre. Falls’ superbly cast production, which stars the longtime Gilman ...
Aug 24, 2022 · Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Rebecca Gilman will mark her 10th production at Goodman Theatre, her longtime creative home, with Swing State—directed by Tony Award-winner Robert Falls in...
Oct 24, 2022 · In this latest collaboration with outgoing Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls, Gilman introduces four characters at a crossroads in a small town in rural Wisconsin during summer 2021 ...
