OTHER DESERT CITIES at Clear Space Theatre

Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the familys historya wound they dont want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it. In his most fully realized play to date, Mr. Baitz makes sure our sympathies keep shifting among the members of the wounded family. Every one of them emerges as selfish, loving, cruel, compassionate, irritating, charming and just possibly heroic leaves you feeling both moved and gratifyingly sated.