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During their young son's birthday celebration, Sandy and Bill Apple dote on their unruly child and insist that parenthood gives life meaning. Their guests, Mia and Jeffrey Freed, are accomplished anthropologists who have chosen not to have children, prompting a comic and increasingly fraught clash over motherhood and family.
Pride's Crossing is a play by Tina Howe. It received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play focuses on 90-year-old Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who as a young woman was the first female to swim the English Channel from England to France. In her introduction to the play, Howe wrote, "For some time now I've wanted to write about the passion of old ladies."
At a new New Jersey restaurant, cash-strapped owners Ellen and Cal serve three groups of guests whose eccentricities and troubles expose how etiquette and social expectations shape eating and relationships. Cooking and eating happen onstage; the evening ends with the owners settling their differences over a communal meal.
During their young son's birthday celebration, Sandy and Bill Apple dote on their unruly child and insist that parenthood gives life meaning. Their guests, Mia and Jeffrey Freed, are accomplished anthropologists who have chosen not to have children, prompting a comic and increasingly fraught clash over motherhood and family.
Pride's Crossing is a play by Tina Howe. It received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play focuses on 90-year-old Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who as a young woman was the first female to swim the English Channel from England to France. In her introduction to the play, Howe wrote, "For some time now I've wanted to write about the passion of old ladies."
At a new New Jersey restaurant, cash-strapped owners Ellen and Cal serve three groups of guests whose eccentricities and troubles expose how etiquette and social expectations shape eating and relationships. Cooking and eating happen onstage; the evening ends with the owners settling their differences over a communal meal.