The Sunset Limited
A Modern Drama
by Cormac McCarthy
directed by Preston Lane
February 13 – March 6, 2011
Life matters.
An African-American ex-con saves the life of a white professor on a subway platform in New York City, even though the professor didn’t wish for such deliverance. The incident leads the two men back to a Harlem apartment where hope and despair clash in a battle that shakes both men to the core of their existence. Is one an angel? Is the other completely lost? Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist McCarthy’s fierce and passionate writing explodes in this drama of two lives changed forever by an act of grace.
“Lane makes our ride on The Sunset Limited a roller coaster of emotions, a back-and-forth transit between belief and non-belief...It’s a gripping, intense, sometimes comical, stare-down of the Grim Reaper.”
–Lynn Jessup, Classical Voice of North Carolina
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Frank Stasio interviews Dr. Stacey Peebles (editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal) and actors Harold Surratt and Kevin Kelly on WUNC Public Radio's The State of Things. Listen to the interview
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