To the Orchard

by Les Hunter

In TO THE ORCHARD, college student Rachel Bergman is propelled to reveal her gay sexual identity to her conservative father, who has hidden his own past for years. An Orthodox rabbi, a queer studies professor, and the spirits of Robert Plant and Virginia Woolf inhabit this slightly magic-realist play about family, making mistakes, retribution and coming clean.

-National Foundation for Jewish Culture New Play...

In TO THE ORCHARD, college student Rachel Bergman is propelled to reveal her gay sexual identity to her conservative father, who has hidden his own past for years. An Orthodox rabbi, a queer studies professor, and the spirits of Robert Plant and Virginia Woolf inhabit this slightly magic-realist play about family, making mistakes, retribution and coming clean.

-National Foundation for Jewish Culture New Play grant
-Readings at Boston Playwrights Theatre and Brooklyn College
-Grant from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation
-Jewish Plays Project 2016 Jewish Playwriting Contest Top 10 Finalist
-World premiere from Playwrights Local 4181 (Cleveland, OH) in May, 2016

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To the Orchard

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    I am charmed by this story, focuses on the relationship between parents and adult children, and the ghosts of things unspoken. Or not yet spoken. The intense relationship between parents and children, the importance of mentors and lovers, and lovers who are mentors. A must-read.

    I am charmed by this story, focuses on the relationship between parents and adult children, and the ghosts of things unspoken. Or not yet spoken. The intense relationship between parents and children, the importance of mentors and lovers, and lovers who are mentors. A must-read.

    ”

Development History

  • Reading, Boston Playwrights Theatre, 2007
  • Reading, Building Bridges Festival, Brooklyn College, 2007
  • Commission, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New Play Development Grant, 2007

Production History

  • Professional, Playwrights Local 4181, 2016

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