Levittown at the Axis Theatre

Axis Company presents Levittown, by Marc Palmieri, at the Axis Theatre from the 22 Jun - 16 Jul 2006.

Levittown: In the shadow of World War II, architect William Levitt envisioned a new American town in a Long Island potato field. After an extensive and spirited development effort, thousands of Levitt "Cape Cod" homes were built with scrap materials. Each carefully modeled home was designed to serve the needs of the modern family. They were sold for $8,000 to battle-weary GIs with the hope of a new life-and as a means of forgetting recent trauma.

At the opening of Levittown, it is nearly half a century later. When Kevin, the grandson of a combat veteran, returns early from yet another college, he learns that his deeply troubled sister is about to be married. With renewed hope, he attempts to reconcile his family with the abusive father who left them years before. Amidst the thin walls of their Levittown home, the members of this beleaguered family are forced to confront a concealed history and the failure of the tidy truths they have desperately embraced.

Directed by George Demas, Levittown features Curzon Dobell, Brian Barnhart, Joe Fuer, Margo Passalaqua, Cecelia Riddett, Ian Tooley, Michael Laurence, and Joe Viviani.

Set and costume design is by Kate Aronsson-Brown, with lighting by Amy Harper and sound by Steve Fontaine.