The Apple Family: Conversations on Zoom
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In THE APPLE FAMILY: CONVERSATIONS ON ZOOM: A PANDEMIC TRILOGY, after six months of self-imposed pandemic isolation, the Apple siblings again gather on Zoom for an evening of dinner, conversation and performance, while the world continues to sputter more and more out of control, amidst anger, loss, death and a coming election.
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WHAT DO WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT?
“No previous works of theater have been topical in the resonant and specific ways of The Apple Family plays … They are a rare and radiant mirror of the way we live … ” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times
The critics on The Apple Family’s first Zoom play, WHAT DO WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT? viewed over 80,000 times in over 30 countries:
“Infinitely poignant.” —The New York Times, Critics Pick
“The first great original play of quarantine.” —The New Yorker
“The best example of Zoom theatre I have watched so far.” —The Guardian, Five Stars
“It’s almost like you are watching a new art form being born.” —Vogue
“It couldn’t be more relevant to how we are right now.” —The Washington Post
“Brilliant theater on Zoom.” —Daily Beast
“Stakes claim as first powerful drama of the pandemic.” —Deadline
“Immensely tender and beautifully constructed new drama that responds directly to the current situation.” —Financial Times
AND SO WE COME FORTH
“A minor masterpiece … that authenticates Zoom as a grown-up dramatic medium.” Five Stars —Sunday Times (UK)
“The question that hangs in the virtual air of AND SO WE COME FORTH, Richard Nelson’s wistfully stirring new Apple Family play, is ‘What have we done to ourselves?'” —The Washington Post
“Powerful.” —The New York Times
“Richard Nelson’s extraordinary, intimate saga.” —Variety
“Couldn’t be more current, more relevant, more poignant, more powerful.” —Northwest Herald (Illinois)
“The effect is kind of a balm to the audience as we identify with the family’s unease, uncertainty, and unfamiliar emotions … The family ask[s] whether art will still be important as part of the human experience in whatever the new world there will be after this … This play is itself the answer.” —Gay City News
“The Apple Family is back, offering much-needed comfort … By giving voice to the anxieties and angers felt by so many these days, Nelson’s characters have become old friends…” —Lighting and Sound America
“The beauty of Nelson’s Apple Family Cycle lies in the context. Like the concentric circles in Chekhov’s plays, characters contemplate the past and the future.” —Theater Pizzazz
INCIDENTAL MOMENTS OF THE DAY
Critic’s Pick
“Truly profound … The genius of INCIDENTAL MOMENTS is in how it extends social and verbal uneasiness within a family to embrace the most important and divisive subjects of the day.” —The New York Times
★★★★★ Five Stars (out of Five)
“Beautifully composed.” —The Guardian (UK)
“Virtually perfect.” —Daily Mail (UK)
★★★★★ Five Stars (out of Five)
“Nelson subtly shines a light on the anger and angst of modern-day America. Underneath their chit-chat, you feel the tide of history turning.” —The Stage (UK)
★★★★ Four Stars
“The piece’s unspoken liberalism—real liberalism, which allows for different points of view—is a moving rebuke to our parched, stark times.” —The Sunday Times (UK)
“An achingly poignant trilogy that maps out the existential black hole we seem to have fallen into.” —The Washington Post
“The pieces (the trilogy) will be remembered, mostly, for how they told the story of our feelings while isolated.” —Chicago Tribune