Thornton Wilder

Comedy

Characters: 2 male 3 female

In this provocative sometimes chilling comedy Wilder renders a child's-eye view of the grown-up world as a father a mother and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe in which the children pretend to be orphans. Startling truths emerge on both sides as pretense challenges the family to discard the traditional roles of parent spouse child and sibling--blurring the lines between perception and rea