Overview

This forgotten gem by the author of Morning's at Seven was originally produced in 1936 and revived in New York by the Circle Repertory Company in 1985. Set in a mid western living room, the play is about what happens when a man who has married a sophisticated woman and carved out a successful career in New York returns home believing his mother to be seriously ill. It's a false alarm, but Richard and his wife stay on to visit and the wife meddles with the lives of these simple people. She decides that John, a sophomore unhappy with college, should return to New York with her. The family doesn't think much of this and the battle is on!