Four thousand miles may seem
like nothing in our connected world. It’s
huge, however, when you’re on a bicycle trip for that distance, and it could be
a chasm that wide when people from different generations are brought
together. 4000 Miles, which is part of the Amy Herzog Festival along with After the Revolution playing at Center
Stage’s Head Theater, attempts to close that chasm. #hocoarts
Inspired by her own grandmother
who lived to 96, Herzog’s 4000 Miles
portrays in realistic terms what happens when an elderly woman Vera, a leftist,
who was a character a decade earlier in After
the Revolution, receives an unexpected visit from her scruffy, smelly 21
year-old grandson Leo, an ecological-minded neo-hippie, who drops in at 3 a.m.
at her Greenwich Village apartment.
Coming off a cross-country bike
trip that was ruined by a tragic accident, Leo and Vera get together as the
story unfolds. Leo visited her
ostensibly because of her elderly status and because he hadn’t seen her since
her deceased husband’s funeral. If he
couldn’t stay with her, Leo was prepared to pitch his tent somewhere in
Manhattan. But you know that wasn’t
going to happen.
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