The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country

A critically acclaimed play cycle about loss, memory and remembrance in America's recent past.

The Apple Family is a quartet of plays following the Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York, as they grapple with events both personal and political in their immediate present: the 2010 election (That Hopey Changey Thing), the tenth anniversary of 9/11 (Sweet and Sad), Obama's reelection (Sorry), and the fiftieth anniversary of JFK's assassination (Regular Singing).

Delicately constructed and precisely observed, the quartet of plays - each of which premiered at The Public Theater in New York on the day it was set - is a masterpiece of stage naturalism and a powerful reminder of theatre's unique capacity for civic dialogue and public communion.