Daytrips
by Jo Carson

Name: Daytrips
Brand: Jo Carson
SKU: 9780822202820
Rating: 2.57 (9 reviews)

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

90 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican

Synopsis

THE STORY: Pat is the caretaker of both her mother, stricken with Alzheimer's disease, and her grandmother, lonely and in need of help.

The play involves a series of day trips which Pat takes with her mother, Irene, to help her grandmother, Rose.

ThemesAmerican Drama

Press Reviews

"This moving and disturbing play revolves around the themes of duty, madness and love as they are manifested in the lives of three women—grandmother, mother and daughter. “It is amazing, particularly considering its doleful circumstances of family, imminent death and immediate loss of faculties, how interesting, rewarding and even entertaining, the play manages to be.” —New York Post. ”This is a serious work about frustration and heartbreak. Carson's monologues and narratives are impressive…"
— BackStage