Acknowledgments -- Production history -- Characters -- Setting -- Prologue -- Act one -- Act two -- Act three
Summary
This play presents a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour mammoth of a play combines tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unfulfilled dreams and leaving not one of its thirteen characters unscathed
