Lemon Sky
Lemon Sky is a 1970 play by Lanford Wilson.
Production history
Lemon Sky was developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference in 1968, with Michael Douglas in the cast.[1] It was then produced off-off-Broadway at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the East Village of Manhattan in 1970.
The play was then produced at the
Clive Barnes, in his The New York Times review of the 1970 production, wrote: "On many levels Lemon Sky is a play very well worth seeing. It has the immediacy of the way we live, and something of the smooth-spoken hysteria."[3]
A revival was produced off-Broadway at the
Plot summary
The story is about a
, California, in the 1950s to live with his estranged father and his new family. Attempting to overcome the past, Alan is confronted with problems in his new family.Television film
Wilson adapted the play for a television film of the same name on PBS. The film was broadcast in February 1988 as part of American Playhouse. Directed by Jan Egleson, the film starred Kevin Bacon as Alan, with Tom Atkins as the father Doug and Lindsay Crouse as Doug's second wife. Kyra Sedgwick, who met future husband Bacon during rehearsals, played Carol, a teenaged boarder: "pill-popping, promiscuous... who seems to spend most of her time with the US Navy."[5] In his review for The New York Times, John J. O'Connor wrote that the film is "terrific", praising the "uncommonly fine performances".[6] Casey Affleck made his screen debut in the film as Alan's stepbrother, Jerry.
References
- ^ a b Kuchwara, Michael. "'Lemon Sky' Revival Opens Off-Broadway" The Day (Google News Archive). December 16, 1985, p. 13.
- Lortel Archives. Accessed September 3, 2015.
- ^ Barnes, Clive. "Stage: Immediacy Illuminates Wilson's 'LemonSky'", The New York Times, May 18, 1970, p. 40.
- Lortel Archives. Accessed September 3, 2015.
- ^ Terry, Clifford. "'Lemon Sky' Peels A Sour Relationship" Chicago Tribune, February 10, 1988.
- ^ O'Connor, John. J. "TV Reviews; Lanford Wilson's 'Lemon Sky,' on Channel 13" The New York Times, February 10, 1988.
External links
- Lemon Sky on IMDb
- Lemon Sky at Rotten Tomatoes
- Notes and drafts for Lemon Sky are held in the Lanford Wilson Collection at the University of Missouri Libraries