The American Plan, a Broadway play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Greenberg, is set in the 1960s in the Catskills. Two women, an overbearing mother and her sensitive daughter, are spending the summer near but not a part of the world of mountain resorts. The lives of the women are upset and their relationship tested when the daughter falls for an enticing stranger.
Set in a Catskills resort in 1960, this examination of American values is in the vein of the film Revolutionary Road, based on Richard Yates' novel of disillusionment amidst upper-middle-class comfort and set in roughly the same period. Like the unhappy couple of Revolutionary Road, the characters here all lead lives based on deception, and eventually it desolates them. When the childlike Lili falls in love with the handsome writer Nick, her cosmopolitan mother, Eva, plots to stymie the match. But is Eva really the selfish dragon she appears to be? Or does she have the best interests of the fragile Lili at heart? Lili's mental health, Nick's background and identity, and Eva's motives all come into question when the not-quite-total stranger Gil wanders on the scene. This is a great American story of deceit and Love, The American Plan tickets are a must purchase.
