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Despite a powerhouse cast led by Broadway legend Cherry Jones and our own Harry Treadaway, this adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Depression-era odyssey by the late Chicagoan theatre-maker Frank Galati is enjoyable for all the wrong reasons.
Carrie Cracknell’s production tracks the impoverished Joad family’s 2,0000-mile flight from Oklahoma to California in a series of picturesque vignettes, studded with folky music by Stuart Earl and Maimuna Memon, who leads the onstage band as they stroll through the action, strumming and fiddling.
