About KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

Know Before You Go is La Jolla Playhouse's newest addition to enhance our theaergoers' experience. This online feature gives you complete access to interviews, show information, images and videos designed to give you an insider's view of the production you're attending. Explore Know Before You Go to get exciting information about the world of the play and the artists who bring it to life!




About Bonnie & Clyde

Bonnie Parker, a café waitress who lives her dreams in the poetry she writes, is bored with life and wants a change. She gets her chance when she meets a charming drifter, Clyde Barrow, who not only has dreams, but a plan to escape the hardships of the depression era West Texas Dust Bowl. Young and hungry for adventure, the two fall in love, steal the first of many cars and begin a crime spree that spreads from Texas to Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and back. Joined by Clyde's brother, Buck, and Blanche, his recalcitrant wife, they rob small banks, grocery stores and gas stations. Their distraught families try to veer them to the straight and narrow, proud locals cheer their homegrown Robin Hoods, and the news-hungry press follow their every move, catapulting them to celebrity status. To the law, they are public enemies who deserve to be gunned down, especially after they begin to leave a bloody trail behind them. Despite the desperation and brutality of life on the run, Bonnie and Clyde, sustained by passion, move to their inevitable fate.

The country, rockabilly and gospel sound of rural East Texas permeates the music by composer Frank Wildhorn and lyricist Don Black, capturing the excitement and soaring heights of passionate love and the danger and violence of Bonnie and Clyde's desperate lives.

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