Maimuna Memon 'We Are the People' | The Grapes of Wrath | National Theatre
'We Are the People' is written by Maimuna Memon.
Performed by Maimuna Memon and Morgan Burgess.
Original song from the 2024 production of The Grapes of Wrath, directed by Carrie Cracknell.
Forced to travel West in search of a promised land, the Joad family embark on an epic journey across America in the hope of finding work and a new life in California.
Their story is one of false hopes, wrong turns and broken dreams, but also a hymn to human kindness and a tribute to the endurance of the human spirit.
Carrie Cracknell (Julie, The Deep Blue Sea) directs Frank Galati’s award-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece. Tony Award-winner Cherry Jones (The Glass Menagerie, Succession) is joined by Harry Treadaway (The Chemistry of Death, Penny Dreadful) in this moving and deeply atmospheric story of a struggle against a hostile climate to find a place to call home.
The Grapes of Wrath is playing in the Lyttelton Theatre until 14 September.
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