About the show Across one day in the 1950s, a circle of friends modeled on Jack Kerouac and fellow Beat writers explore friendship, tension and karma through their conversations and encounters.
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Wikipedia source revision : Wikipedia contributors, Beat Generation (play); revision 1353901935. History: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beat%20Generation%20%28play%29&action=history ; license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . Synopsis paraphrased during individual-page model review. Catalog year basis: The article says Kerouac wrote the play after On the Road was published in 1957 and labels the work a 1957 play; no original production date is given. The 2012 event was a staged reading, which does not displace the composition-date fallback.
Original festival programme : The original 2012 Kerouac Literary Festival programme describes friends modeled on Kerouac, Cassady, Ginsberg and others spending a day together in the 1950s, with friendship and karma central to the work. It identifies the 2012 event as a stage reading and dates writing to 1957. Accessed 2026-11-05.