Comedy/ 10 characters, 5 men, 4 women, 1 either/ One Act
Synopsis: The family has gathered at the farm for Ma’s birthday, and to await what might be devastating news about her health. Various tensions emerge. Mary Lou fears that husband Stanley is about to get cut out of the family will. Stanley is worried about Mary Lou’s drinking. Ma thinks Stanley and Mary Lou have bedroom problems, and Pa just wishes everyone would calm down. This sly parody of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is just as dark as the original, and way funnier.
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About the Playwright: George Freek’s plays have been produced by the Organic Theater in Chicago, the Milwaukee Repertory, the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles, and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, as well as the 13th Street Theater, Love Creek Productions, and the Theater-Studio in New York. He has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts — the latter for a Residency at the New American Theater in Rockford, Illinois — and has also enjoyed residencies at Southern Methodist University and Southern Illinois University.
She’s Really Trying was first produced at Theatre Studio, New York City, in April 2012.