Overview

The story is that of a family and the family business, which is on the rocks. The son makes arrangements to save the business behind the back of his intractable father, but father finds out and goes mad with the recognition of such perfidy and disaster. Mother decides to stay and nurse father, rather than send him to an asylum and go to live herself with her children. The University of Maine premiere heralded this international play as a "gripping, very successful" piece of work.