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Other Desert Cities

Directed by Andy Leahy

"Other Desert Cities" is a comedy/drama about a family and how they deal with one another in the context of a family tragedy. Lyman and Polly Wyeth live in Palm Springs, California, in a mid-century modern house. Lyman is a retired movie star and government diplomat. Polly wrote novels along with her sister Silda, who now lives with the Wyeths. Polly and Silda are ethnic Jews. Polly and Lyman's adult children are visiting for Christmas. Trip produces reality television shows in Los Angeles and Brooke is a writer who had some success with her first book but has been struggling for the past several years to produce a second book. She has not been home for a number of years and is only there now to have her family review an expose book about her younger brother Henry's suicide following a much-publicized bombing by him and others that caused the death of one person. This leads, at the end of the play, to the revelation of the carefully guarded secret which only Polly and Lyman know.