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Daytrips
by Jo Carson

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Highlights

4

Small Cast

4

Female
90 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings American

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.

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Themes American 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

Publication

Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822202820
ISBN-10 0822202824

Daytrips is a American play written by Jo Carson and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).

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