One character in this play is mockingly called "the Mother of Middle-Class itself," and reveals that her husband Fred is cheating on her.
One character in this play is mockingly called "the Mother of Middle-Class itself," and reveals that her husband Fred is cheating on her. Another character in this play idealizes his wife as wild "Mountain Girl," and is devastated when she leaves him to act in television commercials. This play was originally named for Jenny Reed, and centers on a character haunted by the death of Sal Peretti, who uses the money from the sale of his failed nightclub Walden Pond to start a newspaper. At the end of this play, the prostitute Gloria dies of an overdose after being rejected by her fiancee Alton Scales, and the title character vows to fight the politician Wally O'Hara before reconciling with his wife Iris. Set in a Greenwich Village apartment, for 10 points, name this play about a Jewish intellectual written by Lorraine Hansberry.
One character in this play is mockingly called "the Mother of Middle-Class itself," and reveals that her husband Fred is cheating on her.
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window