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What Do We Need to Talk About?

What Do We Need to Talk About?

2020 · 60 min · Drama

In the midst of our unsettled world, the Apple Family, last seen in 2014, return, though not over the dinner table, but via Zoom. This hour-long play picks up with them during their now suspended and quarantined lives. They talk about grocery shopping, friends lost, new ventures on a hoped-for horizon—all at a time when human conversation (and theater) may be more needed than ever before.

Directed by Richard Nelson · Written by Richard Nelson

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