With climate change and refugees very much a focus for politicians and humanitarian efforts in recent years, this unrelentingly dismal tale of enforced displacement and movement of people from their ruined farm homes and livelihoods, has never been more prescient. John Steinbeck’s seminal dust bowl diaspora yarn (which seemed so dry and dull to this reviewer when a teenager at school), has assumed a new and profound resonance through Frank Galati’s adaptation.
The Grapes of Wrath cast at the National Theatre. © Richard Hubert Smith.
