By Beth Henley. Warm-hearted, irreverent and brilliantly imaginative, this play is set in rural Mississippi where the three vastly different Magrath sisters, long separated, have gathered to tend to the last days of their elderly father. Lenny, the oldest at 30 and unmarried, is focused on her quest to find a mate. Meg, the middle sister, is just back from the West Coast after a failed singing career. Babe, the youngest, has just made bail after an arrest for having shot her husband. Not the makings of a comedy, you say. Wrong! The story of how these women escape from their past and embrace their future is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will stay with you long after the end of the play. Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award.
Also at 2PM August 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26
