The Last Of The Haussmans - 2012 - 6/10
Mother abandoned her two children early to live in an ashram.
Grandma took care of the youngsters and promised them her home when she died.
After she died, however, Mother appeared and took possession of the home, cutting the children out.
She could not afford to maintain the property and allowed it to descend into shambles.
So the play opens. Mom, half-senile, one tumor removed, living amidst her sixties hippie delusions. The adult children, failures each, watch any sort of security ebb away.
The hippie stereotype wears thin, and no one seems capable of becoming “adult”.
Not particularly funny, nor tragic. Talking, not conversation.