THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Director Luk Perceval

“The Grapes of Wrath” is a play about people who are forced to flee from a destroyed country, they have been promised paradise, but they find themselves in hell. Performance leaves even a more profound impact than a report from a refugee camp in Calais." Knack.be

There was a time when the famous east-west United States highway, Route 66, was the road for endless migrant trucks that fled from hunger and poverty in Oklahoma and Arkansas and went to the “promised land” - California.

People fled because vast fields of wheat in the middle of the country become a "Dust Bowl" due to the thoughtless planting of monoculture.

In his famous novel "The Grapes of Wrath", which appeared in 1939 in the United States, John Steinbeck told the story of the Joad family, who, like many others, could no longer pay the rent and followed the call “Go West!” In the hope that on the fruit plantations of California they will be able to begin a new life.

“Here we had a hard time. And everything will be different - lots of work, everything is green, small white houses, oranges everywhere”. “Oranges everywhere?” – “Well, perhaps, not everywhere, but almost everywhere”.  The elders died on the way, and the rest arrived at the new place only to meet the same poverty and hatred of the locals.

Luke Percival opens The Lessing Days in 2016 with his international, multi-lingual team and tells the story of the great exile. This is a story of a family that flees from their home to start a new life at a new place. But after a long, hard journey to face a happy future they realize that none of the promises are fulfilled in reality.