Characters
Four: Two men and two women.
Synopsis
Grandma’s Funeral is a dark comic one-act play about a Polish-American family – an aging mother and her three grown siblings. Through interlocking monologues each sibling and the mother relate a different point of view about their life as a family. They also share their own distorted memories about the sad and comic events that take place during grandma’s funeral.
Production History
Staged by the Cellar Door Players at the Royal George Theatre, Chicago Illinois
Staged by Boulevard Ensemble, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Reviews
“The key to the success of this terrific play is in the details – the ones described by the characters and the ones suggested by what’s left unsaid. Like a Chicago ethnic Mark Twain, playwright Wawzenek knows his characters inside out, and he knows how to let us discover them gradually and inferentially.” — Chicago Reader
“Grandma’s Funeral is hilarious as the quarreling middle-aged children and their mother tell of the misfortunes they encounter in the planning of the funeral.” — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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