Spot Has a Big Red Ball - Digital Version

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Father and Mother, Grandfather and Grandmother, Brother and Sister and Baby Sister are a clean cut family out of an old children’s reader from 1950s America some years later, and t heir once innocent world has turned much darker. Brother has been to war and has brain damage. Sister has been a movie actress specializing in shower scenes whose career has ended abruptly when a lascivious movie mogul trying to take advantage of her somehow gets his testicles stapled to the curtains. Father is having a terrible time cleaning his rifle because when he puts it back together he keeps finding parts that don’t fit. Mother is reminiscing about her possibly imaginary past infidelities. Grandfather has made a hole in the wall so he can watch Mother take showers. Grandmother is obsessively making sock puppets. And Baby Sister, who has had a terrible childhood experience in the barn, is doing her best to understand what has become of their once idyllic but mostly bogus American innocence? Funny, surreal and oddly poetic, a play about what became of that mythological innocence. And also sock puppets. Show more