On the Open Road (play)
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On The Open Road is a play by the late Steve Tesich
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It is a post-apocalyptic tale concerning the events after a "civil war" within the United States.
Characters drag wheeled carts filled with meager possessions through a destroyed American wasteland.
There have been numerous productions throughout the US.
It is greatly influenced by the work of Samuel Beckett and was undoubtedly an influence to Cormac McCarthy
in his Pulitzer Prize
winning novel The Road
.
Steve Tesich
Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away.-Career:...
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It is a post-apocalyptic tale concerning the events after a "civil war" within the United States.
Characters drag wheeled carts filled with meager possessions through a destroyed American wasteland.
There have been numerous productions throughout the US.
It is greatly influenced by the work of Samuel Beckett and was undoubtedly an influence to Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road...
in his Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winning novel The Road
The Road
The Road is a 2006 novel by the American author Cormac McCarthy.The Road may also refer to:* The Road , a 2001 Kazakhstani film* The Road , a 2009 film adaptation of the McCarthy novel...
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