The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family

Over the next ten years, Nelson will be collaborating with preeminent translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on a major translation series of classic Russian plays.From the author of The Apple Family plays, this illuminating trilogy reflects on American life during the 2016 national election. Each play is set over the course of one evening in the house the family grew up in. The trilogy includes Hungry, What Did You Expect?, and Women of a Certain Age.Richard Nelson’s many

That Chekhovian sense of time fading even as we inhabit it thrums through both the talk and the silences." New York Times on Women of a Certain Age. Their time onstage here and in two previous dramasmay collectively represent the most profound achievement in topical theater in this country since the Depression-era triumphs of Clifford Odets’s Waiting for Lefty and Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock.” - Ben Brantley, New York Times on The Gabriels play cycle“Hungrymay well be the most resonantly topical and emotionally engaging play of this election year.” New York