SYNOPSIS
Humor cloaks the disjointed relationships of a Matriarchal family. A deceased (unknown to the audience) son-in-law of the queen enters and sets up the play. The curtain opens on four present day mature women, who unbeknownst to the audience, are daughters of the queen. They are in a nursing home playing cards. The queen, repeatedly tries to escape from the nursing home. Each attempt is more resourceful than the last. After each capture the nurse adds an additional alarm bracelet or anklet to the queen. With each detainment the queen becomes nastier. At the end of Act I, after the last escape, the queen resorts to hitting the nurse, which means she must leave the nursing home.
In Act II the meekest of the sisters, shoulders the responsibility for the queen’s affairs. Act II Scene 1 closes with the queen having a stroke and thus, is allowed to stay in the nursing home. In Scene 2 it is revealed that the four main characters are sisters. Their true feelings about their mother and the rest of the family are exposed in totality. The queen is on stage in a night-gown, having an out-of-body experience, where she hears and watches her daughters. The final scene opens with the queen, after her death, as a spirit, talking to her son-in-law about how she now realizes why her daughters feel the way they do about her. She laments many of her actions and resolves to improve the emotional imprints on her daughters, by atypically haunting the last scene.