Grace & Glorie
by Tom Ziegler

Name: Grace & Glorie
Brand: Tom Ziegler
SKU: 9780573696053
Rating: 3.17 (8 reviews)

Grace & Glorie Book Cover — Grace & Glorie Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

120 mins1990sAll WomenInterior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesAmerican Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about the play's pacing and development. Many appreciate the heartfelt moments and authenticity of the relationship between the characters, but some readers feel the relationship evolves too quickly for believability.

Heartfelt momentsAuthentic character relationshipsPacing and development issues

Synopsis

Grace, a feisty 90 year-old cancer patient, has checked herself out of the hospital and returned to her beloved homestead cottage to die alone.

Her volunteer hospice worker, Glorie, is a Harvard MBA recently transplanted to this rural backwater from New York.

Glorie is tense, unhappy and guilt-ridden, her only child having been killed in an auto accident when she was driving.

As she attempts to care for and comfort the cantankerous Grace, the sophisticated Glorie gains new perspectives on values and life's highs and lows.

Press Reviews

"A sentimental odd couple crowd pleaser...[with] a steady drip of easy laughs."
— The New Tork Times

"A lot of good humor...artfully designed to confirm hopes...Offers the opportunity for good, honest, grandstanding acting."
— The New York Post

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Gloria Whitmore late thirties, early forties. A New Yorker.	—	—	late thirties, early forties. A New Yorker.
Grace Stiles ninety year old country woman.	female	—	ninety year old country woman.