Far From Heaven
539 Tremont Street Boston
The picture-perfect facade of '50s-era domesticity is torn away to reveal repression, guilt and torrid affairs in Far From Heaven, the stage adaptation of the Oscar-nominated romantic melodrama from director Todd Haynes (I'm Not There, Mildred Pierce). While managing a household that would show-up the Cleavers in its neatness and apparent civility, a Connecticut housewife discovers her husband's shocking secret ... only to seek comfort in a forbidden relationship of her own. The friction between private longings and public taboos generates the heat that radiates from this shimmering musical from the creators of the musical Grey Gardens and Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out). Scott Edmiston directs the Boston premiere of Far From Heaven for SpeakEasy Stage.
Presented by SpeakEasy Stage
Thru - Oct 11, 2014