3 F / 4 M
A Pulitzer-Prize winner by America’s greatest comic playwright, this memory play is set in a comfortable apartment in Yonkers in 1942. The play describes another battling odd couple – this time, an old woman and her 35-year-old daughter. Bella, the daughter, is a retarded, pathetically affectionate creature, and she is more than enough for Grandma Kurnitz to manage. As the play opens, son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady’s doorstep. He is deeply in debt and needs to go on an extended sales trip to make some money. The boys must contend with Grandma, a stern, tough old lady; with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, who may have mob connections. Gradually, the mood deepens and darkens as the boys endure life with a family of emotionally crippled people. While the children are only temporarily exiled in Yonkers, the rest of their sad, funny family is truly lost.
