A comic portrait of Mabel McClafferty, a brash middle-aged woman forced by gentrification to vacate her apartment. As she sorts the accumulation of a lifetime, she nods off to sleep in a series of farcical dreams: cashing in green stamps, she’s led down a dark hallway of financial nightmares; she goes back to grade school, through the channels of her TV, into a detective mystery, and to outer space.
Written by Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller, in collaboration with Camilla Schade.
Directed by Conrad Bishop, music by Ross Care
Two acts; 1 woman, unit set.
Produced by The Independent Eye, premiering Nov. 2, 1989, at Eye Theatre Works (Lancaster, PA). Restaged for premiere Sept. 12, 1996, at Old City Stage Works (Philadelphia, PA), with set by Wesley Maloney-Truitt. Total of 31 performances.
