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4000 Miles is a dramatic comedy play by Amy Herzog. The play ran Off-Broadway in 2011, and again in 2012. The play was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
When Leo Joseph-Connell suffers a major loss while on a cross-country bike trip, he seeks solace from his feisty grandmother Vera Joseph in her West Village apartment.
The character of "Vera Joseph," who initially appeared in Herzog's play After the Revolution, is based on Herzog's grandmother Leepee. Herzog used Leepee's "words, habits and history to fashion the character of Vera Joseph".
Backstage observed that "'4000 Miles' is a bit of a companion piece to 'After the Revolution,' her captivating political family drama ... as both plays contain the character of Vera Joseph, a no-nonsense 91-year-old grandmother who's also a member of the Communist Party. Vera is as interesting here as she was in the earlier play, but the story surrounding her is considerably slighter." Leo is based on her cousin who lost a good friend. The "Josephs" in her plays are also partially based on her father's stepfamily.
The play premiered Off-Broadway at the Duke on 42nd Street Theatre, opening on June 20, 2011, and closing on July 9, 2011. The play then ran Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at the Lincoln Center Theater in March 2012 through June 17, 2012. It was the first play in Lincoln Center Theater's new works program. The play, directed by Daniel Aukin, featured Mary Louise Wilson as Vera and Gabriel Ebert as Leo Joseph-Connell.
The play was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In a Playbill article on the possible Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Simonson wrote that 4000 Miles "is a gentle, warm drama ... Critics found Herzog's naturalistic tapestry touching, compassionate and authentically felt." The Pulitzer Prize citation reads "a drama that shows acute understanding of human idiosyncrasy as a spiky 91-year-old locks horns with her rudderless 21-year-old grandson who shows up at her Greenwich Village apartment after a disastrous cross-country bike trip."
The play won the 2012 Obie Award for Best New American Play, and was named Time magazine's #1 Play or Musical of 2012.
The European premiere was at Bath Theatre Royal, from April 11, 2013 to May 11, 2013. Directed by James Dacre, the cast featured Sara Kestleman as Vera.
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4000 Miles
4000 Miles is a dramatic comedy play by Amy Herzog. The play ran Off-Broadway in 2011, and again in 2012. The play was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
When Leo Joseph-Connell suffers a major loss while on a cross-country bike trip, he seeks solace from his feisty grandmother Vera Joseph in her West Village apartment.
The character of "Vera Joseph," who initially appeared in Herzog's play After the Revolution, is based on Herzog's grandmother Leepee. Herzog used Leepee's "words, habits and history to fashion the character of Vera Joseph".
Backstage observed that "'4000 Miles' is a bit of a companion piece to 'After the Revolution,' her captivating political family drama ... as both plays contain the character of Vera Joseph, a no-nonsense 91-year-old grandmother who's also a member of the Communist Party. Vera is as interesting here as she was in the earlier play, but the story surrounding her is considerably slighter." Leo is based on her cousin who lost a good friend. The "Josephs" in her plays are also partially based on her father's stepfamily.
The play premiered Off-Broadway at the Duke on 42nd Street Theatre, opening on June 20, 2011, and closing on July 9, 2011. The play then ran Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at the Lincoln Center Theater in March 2012 through June 17, 2012. It was the first play in Lincoln Center Theater's new works program. The play, directed by Daniel Aukin, featured Mary Louise Wilson as Vera and Gabriel Ebert as Leo Joseph-Connell.
The play was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In a Playbill article on the possible Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Simonson wrote that 4000 Miles "is a gentle, warm drama ... Critics found Herzog's naturalistic tapestry touching, compassionate and authentically felt." The Pulitzer Prize citation reads "a drama that shows acute understanding of human idiosyncrasy as a spiky 91-year-old locks horns with her rudderless 21-year-old grandson who shows up at her Greenwich Village apartment after a disastrous cross-country bike trip."
The play won the 2012 Obie Award for Best New American Play, and was named Time magazine's #1 Play or Musical of 2012.
The European premiere was at Bath Theatre Royal, from April 11, 2013 to May 11, 2013. Directed by James Dacre, the cast featured Sara Kestleman as Vera.