In fact these billboards -- which really existed -- form an ironic backdrop to Chichester Festival Theatre’s touring production of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck’s seminal novel set during the 1930s depression that all but ripped America apart.
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A hard life when the American dream turns sour
A billboard on Route 66 declares: “There is no way like the American way, The most prosperous country in the world.” Such optimistic swagger suggests the bullish boom years of the early 1960s portrayed in TV drama Mad Men rather than the reality of a global recession.
