by Sharr White
November 12 - December 7, 2008
The cost of the "good war" is tallied in the story of one remarkable couple. An intimate journey through the booming, hopeful and devastating epochs of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Post WWII America-a simpler time when young families were caught up in the wave of social, economic and political change, when returning GIs left behind the horrors of war to pursue the American Dream.
Phil went off to war six years before we meet him, but when everyone else came home, he didn't. He spent years wandering around the country, unable to re-connect with the life he left at home. Meredith, his wife, has kept the home fires burning and planned for the future.
We check in with Phil and Meredith every six years between 1949 and 1973, as Phil attempts to put the pieces of his life-and their marriage-back together. Meredith moves beyond the traditional role of "wife." Behind the idyllic Baby Boom facade of happy, growing families in bright new houses, television sets and get-ahead career paths, Phil and Meredith struggle through two decades of a tumultuous time that ends as they watch other people's children return home from yet another war.
"We can never know what happens in other people's houses, except when storytellers like Sharr White take us inside." - Julie Felise Dubiner, Actor's Theatre of Louisville