Michael Billington in the Guardian gives 5 stars and calls the American Plan staging in Bath as “an absolute cracker” and says “it also cries out to transfer immediately to a suitable London space” And so it will – the play will be at the St James Theatre this July
According to the St James Theatre this is “A tangle of ravaged dreams, broken souls, twisted motives and deceit, The American Plan takes place against a backdrop of the Catskill Mountains during a 1960s summer.
Lili Adler, the beautiful, fragile daughter of a wealthy German-Jewish refugee, meets Nick Lockridge, a handsome young stranger, and finds herself falling in love. But when her overbearing mother learns of their relationship, she proceeds to poison the young man’s affection and Lili’s one chance to escape her mother’s control looks like being lost forever”
