The Snow Geese

Description

With war raging abroad, newly widowed Elizabeth Gaesling gathers her family for their annual shooting party to mark the opening of hunting season in rural upstate New York. But Elizabeth is forced to confront a new reality as her carefree eldest son comes to terms with his impending deployment overseas and her younger son discovers the father they all revered left them deeply in debt. Together, the Gaeslings must learn to let go of the life theyve always known as the world around them changes forever. The Snow Geese had its world premiere in October 2013, a joint production of Manhattan Theatre Club with MCC Theater, starring Mary-Louise Parker and directed by Daniel Sullivan.

Sharr Whites plays have been developed or produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC Theater, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Melbourne Theatre Company, The Magic Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Marin Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theaters Directors Lab, Key West Theatre Festival and more.

A lovely, moving account of a clans struggle to adapt to trying circumstances and a changing world * USA Today * As a portrait of people who live in pipe dreams, The Snow Geese invites comparison to Ibsen, whose Wild Duck, another play with a fondness for avian symbolism, deals trenchantly with the same theme * The New York Times * In The Other Place, White proved himself sensitive to the emotional attachment that people have always had to their beloved family homesteads, and The Snow Geese speaks to that devotion * Variety *