CLOSE TIES by Elizabeth Diggs

ABOUT THE PLAY:
The scene is a country home in the Berkshire Mountains of New England, where three generations of the Whitaker/Frye family have gathered for the summer. The center for all of them has always been the willful matriarch, Josephine Whitaker, who still bustles about energetically, tending her garden and issuing orders to the others, even though she has long since given the house to her middle-aged daughter, Bess Frye, and her husband, Watson. The ultimate focus of the play is on the once indomitable Josephine, who is edging into senility and, in the family’s view, must no longer be allowed to live alone.