Freedomland (play)

Freedomland
Date premieredNovember 1997 (1997-11)
Place premieredSouth Coast Repertory
GenreComedy

Freedomland is a 1998 comedy play written by Amy Freed. The plot revolves around the family reunion of the Underfingers gone wrong.[1] It was finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[2][3]

Freedomland was produced Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, running from December 16, 1998 to January 3, 1999. Directed by Howard Shalwitz, the cast featured Veanne Cox, Jeffrey Donovan, and Heather Goldenhersh.[4] The "darkly satiric comedy" premiered at the South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California, in November 1997. The title is based on the "name of a Wild West theme park in the Bronx, where Freed grew up."[5]

  1. ^ Brantley, Ben (17 December 1998). "THEATER REVIEW; in a Family This Skewed, Those Ids Run Amok". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Pulitzer Prize Drama" pulitzer.org, accessed November 9, 2015
  3. ^ "Drama's Amy Freed a Pulitzer finalist" Stanford Report, April 15, 1998
  4. ^ "Freedomland Off-Broadway" lortel.org, accessed January 1, 2016
  5. ^ Simonson, Robert and Lefkowitz, David. "Playwrights Horizons Ventures To Freed's 'Freedomland' Nov. 27" Playbill, November 26, 1998