What Do We Need to Talk About?

What Do We Need to Talk About?

Part of The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country

2020•1h 0m

Drama

In the midst of our unsettled world, the Apple Family, last seen in 2014, return, though not over the dinner table, but via Zoom. This hour-long play picks up with them during their now suspended and quarantined lives. They talk about grocery shopping, friends lost, new ventures on a hoped-for horizon—all at a time when human conversation (and theater) may be more needed than ever before.

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EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Jon DeVries

Jon DeVries

Benjamin Apple

Stephen Kunken

Stephen Kunken

Tim Andrews

Sally Murphy

Sally Murphy

Jane Apple Halls

Maryann Plunkett

Maryann Plunkett

Barbara Apple

Laila Robins

Laila Robins

Marian Apple Platt

Jay O. Sanders

Jay O. Sanders

Richard Apple

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