Alterations

BIESEL - 70-80, (pronounced Beezle) is a strong-willed, very hard of hearing, older woman whose frail body is causing her to become a lot more dependent than she'd like to be. She cultivates vagueness to protect herself from everything she isn't ready to hear.  She uses her hearing aid to manipulate her daughter.  She is loving when she feels safe and competetive when she doesn't.
ERICA - 40-50, is trapped between the needs of her mother and her daughter and when she is no longer able to cope she rearranges all the furniture.  She has a biting sense of humor and accesses anger easily - but, underneath it all, she is trying to do the right thing and feels her efforts are going unrecognized. Her inability to come from love when she most wants to is her personal dilemma and the struggle she begins to resolve in the last scene.
PHOEBE - 15-17, is naturally intelligent and thinks deeply.  She is not in the least bit bratty or precocious.  She has learned to maneuver her mother's overt strength with a quiter strength.  She is fair minded and a peace keeper.  She has found God and, through meditation, a much needed stillness.
PETER - 40-50, is Erica's husband - they are separated.  Peter is a good man with a warm heart who knows better than anyone where and why Erica hurts but he's running out of patience with her refusal to look at herself in the mirror.  When the play begins he still has hope that, if he just hangs in, reconciliation will be possible.
ADRIANNA - 20-30, is a model at the end of her relationship with her boyfriend.  She's ditzy on the surface and smart underneath - almost in spite of herself.  She has confidence in herself professionally but not personally.

Written with an upper middle class family of "Wasps" in mind but the casting can be colorblind as long as character intentions are clear.