Director
Set Design
Lighting Design
Costume Design
Assistant to Mr. Shank
Production Stage Manager
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Terrence Shank
Gene Mazzanti
Michael Lincoln
Don Woodruff
RoZsa J. Horvath
Linda Somers
Donald Petrie
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CAST :
The Family
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Ma
Pa
Tom
Al
Rose of Sharon
Grandma
Grandpa
Uncle John
Connie
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Kathryn Fuller
James Howard Davis
Richard Lineback
Richard Molnar
Carol Newell
Ivy Bethune
Rue Knapp
Thomas Van Buren
Robert O’Reilly
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The Others:
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Jim Casy
Ivy Wilson
Sairy Wilson
Arizona Troopers
Ragman
Camp Manager
Elizabeth Sandry
Miss Horsham
Dance Girl
Dance Boy
Contractor
Deputies
Ranch Manager
Store Clerk
Strike Breakers
Starving Man
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Stuart Lancaster
Garth Pillsbury
Barbara Beckley
Robert Budaska
Jeffrey Markle
Bradley Della Valle
David Clover
Kathryn Kates
Maggie Bodek
Rita Lilly
Andrew Marzec
Arnie Shamblin
Alex Zonn
Jeffrey Markle
Jim Buckner
Bud Samiljan
Jeffrey Markle
Gregory Post
Donald Petrie
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Time: 1936
Place: Various locations
in Oklahoma, California, and in between.
ACT I
Exodus
ACT II
Welcome to California
ACT III
Regeneration
The Thirties: What the
Migrants Said
Quoted by Dorthea Lange
in An American Exodus
"If I could get me a piece
of land I’d go diggin’ it with my hands."
"Here’s what I think
on it — the tractor’s as strong against us as the drought."
"We can work this land as
good as anybody. We was raised on it."
"Burned out, blowed out,
eat out, tractored out."
"This is a hard life to swallow
but I couldn’t just sit back there and look to someone to feed us."
"We ain’t no paupers. We
don’t want no relief. But what we do want is a chanst to make an honest
living like what we was raised."
"When you gits down to your
last bean your backbone and your navel shakes dice to see which gets it."
"Christ, I’ll die before
I’ll say I’d bring up a bunch of kids living this way."
"Brother, hit’s pick seventy-five-cent
cotton or starve."
"Brother, hit’s pick seventy-five-cent
cotton or else."
"Tain’t hardly fair. They
holler that we ain’t citizens but their fruit would rot if we didn’t come."
"My boys are American citizens.
If war was declared they’d have to fight no matter where they was. I don’t
see why we can’t be citizens because we move around with the fruit tryin’
to make a livin’."
"A human being has a right
to stand like a tree has a right to stand."
"The writer is delegated
to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart
and spirit — for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love.
In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally
flags of hope and emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately
believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership
in literature."
— John Steinbeck’s Nobel
Prize Acceptance Speech
"The families, which had
been units of which the boundaries were a house at night, a farm by day,
changed their boundaries . . . They changed their social life — changed
as in the whole universe only man can change. They were not farm men any
more, but migrant men. And the thought, the planning, the long staring
silence that had gone out to the fields, went now to the roads, to the
distance, to the West . . . The wills thrust westward ahead of them, and
fears that had once apprehended drought or flood now lingered with anything
that might stop the westward crawling."
"This you may say of man
— when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow
dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate,
man reaches, stumbles forward, he may slip back, but only half a step,
never the full step back."
— John Steinbeck, The
Grapes of Wrath