An adaptation of the short play "The Wreck on the 5:25" by American Pulitzer winner novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder is to go on stage at City Theater on June 11.
The play is about Herbert Hawkins who commutes to work on the same train every day. At first, the Hawkins family seems stereotypically slothful because of the wrenching boredom of their lives, discussing their daily chores, and unwilling to take risks. But later it is revealed that there is a more enervating sloth in the family leaning on destruction.
One day Hawkins calls to say he will not be coming home on the 5:25pm train as usual. The news sets his wife and daughter on edge, a condition heightened when a neighbor informs them that an unidentified man is hiding in the shadows of their front lawn. The police arrive to arrest the supposed intruder, only to find Herb, quietly observing his family through the windows of his own home.
It so happens that earlier in the day he receives word of a surprise inheritance, left to him by a kind, lonely elderly woman. The sudden gift of a large sum of money prompts Herb to do some soul searching and question the meaning and purpose of his own life.
According to Tiwall.com, Siavash Khadem-Hosseini, Shaqayeq Fat'hi, Hamed Navoshki and Nesa Yousefi are in the cast.
The performance is to remain on stage till June 22 at the theater located at the intersection of Valiasr and Enqelab streets.
