Tuesdays to Saturdays 8.15 pm.
Saturday Matinee 28th August at 2.00 pm.
Sunday Matinee 5th September at 2.00 pm.
Gala Night Saturday 4th September at 8.15 pm.
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John and Nettie Cleary live unhappily together in a middle-class apartment in the West Bronx, New York. Their twenty-one-year-old son Timmy has
just returned home after serving three years in the army during World War II. As the drama unfolds, the tensions in the family become apparent.
Husband and wife squabble; Nettie is over-protective toward her grown son; John tries to overcome years of neglect and make an affectionate connection with Timmy, but that path proves stormy. Eventually, Timmy inadvertently sends down a depth charge into the deep well of his parents’ mutual misery when he impulsively buys Nettie a dozen roses, then urges his father to take the credit. Gilroy’s perceptive observation of the way this small incident becomes a catalyst for a painful examination of the family pathologies gives the play its power.
