The story of the Joad family and their flight from the dust bowl of Oklahoma. Desperately proud, but reduced to poverty by the loss of their farm, the Joads pile their few possessions on a battered old truck and head west for California, hoping to find work and a better life. The Joads must deal with death and terrible deprivation before reaching their destination - where their waning hopes are dealt a final blow by the stark realities of the Great Depression. Despite the anguish and suffering which it depicts, the play is a deeply moving affirmation of the indomitability of the human spirit, and of the essential goodness and strength which resides in the heart and minds of the 'common man,' throughout the world. Tony Award winner 1990.

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