Little Theatre

Morality

New Revised

Edition David Rabe

5m, 2f

Int.

A devastating portrait of a foolish, intolerant middle class American family. When the oldest son returns from Vietnam blinded the mother, a religious hypocrite and racial bigot invades his privacy and is too self centered to be concerned with his plight. The father is a hypocrite and a failure. He has a double standard as to relations with women. The younger son is not only stupid, but a sexist pig as well. Then there's a sadistic, garrulous American Catholic priest who's programmed by textbooks. The family conspire to help the blind son to commit suicide. It's to be done in a very tidy, decent way. And in the finale, there's a searing, surrealistic scene in which bodies of the war's victims are seen.

Special Award of the New York Critics' Circle.

"Strikingly original anti war play ... powerful." - New York Daily News

"A funny, cruel, mordant, unsparing attack on American society." - WCBS TV.

FEE: $100 per performance.