"From first moments to last?? this compassionate but clear-eyed play throbs with heartfelt life?? with characters as complicated as any you'll encounter at the theater today?? and with a nifty ticking time bomb of a plot. That the people onstage are middle-class or lower-middle-class folks ? too rarely given ample time on American stages ? makes the play all the more vital a contribution to contemporary drama. . . . If I had pompoms?? I'd be waving them now."rles Isherwood?? The New York Times

No stranger to dramas both heartfelt and heart-rending?? Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage has written one of her most exquisitely devastating