THE STORY: After the sudden death of her adoptive mother, a rich New York City dancer embarks on a search for her birth mother's home. She longs for a family connection but ends up with a family crisis. In an impoverished farmhouse in rural upstate New York, her fifteen-year-old half-sister is pregnant - and wants to give up her baby. Her mother - a stubborn, introverted woman who carves rough rock sculptures as a way to express her frustrations - wants her to keep it. Her grandmother wants to be boss. Armed with good intentions and a desire to help her new family, the dancer arrives at their door. When she's met with a volatile mixture of envy, regret and resentment, her assumptions about identity, biological ties and what it "means" to be a mother are turned upside down.

"lovely, sensitive and engrossingremarkabletakes theatergoers along for the roller-coaster ride that a woman might go through in meeting her biological mother for the first time. With plays like this and films like Mike Leigh's Secrets and Liesadoption certainly looks like a superior option for the child involved. For the mother, it's another story." - NY Times. "engaging new playmoody, wrenching and often touching look into the emotional lives of four womenfilled with moments that all families will recognize, and lessons we all need to learn." - NYTheatre.com.

Publisher

Dramatists Play Service Inc.

Format

Play

Binding

Softcover

ISBN

9780822221555

Stock code

9780822221555

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