Small-Time Losers Crying Rocks is a scathing play about mothers and daughters. And the two main characters stay that way, unfortunately, in Yasmina Reza's new play.
Nobody gets out of here unscathed.
Not when the bitter, fire-breathing widow in Edward Allen Baker's chillingly insightful play Crying Rocks , now in its world premiere at the Laurelgrove Theater, is throwing her weight around. Vera is the matriarch of one big, unhappy family, and her four daughters have the personality disorders to prove it. They're stinging in their indifference to each other, reflexively selfish, but they're all willing victims of their men. Worst of all, after life with Vera, they just can't seem to squeeze any happiness out of their arid, rubble-strewn existence, though they stubbornly deny it. Welcome to blue-collar America.