'Exquisite' acting keeps critics hooked on The American Plan

Diana Quick as 'outrageous gorgon Jewish mama' leads brilliant cast in London transfer from Bath

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What you need to know A revival of US playwright Richard Greenberg's 1990 play, The American Plan, staged at the Theatre Royal, Bath earlier this year to great acclaim, has transferred to the St James Theatre, London.

Set in the Catskill Mountains during a summer in the early 1960s, The American Plan tells the story of Lili, the unstable daughter of German Jewish refugees, who falls for a mysterious young man, Nick. But Lili's domineering mother Eva will not give up her daughter easily and a tug-of-war ensues.

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