Life and Limb

Set in New Jersey during the mid-1950s, Life and Limb traces the rocky but invincible relationship of protagonists Franklin Roosevelt Clagg and his wife Effie. The play moves from their early wide-eyed idealism to Franklin’s
loss of his right arm in the Korean War to a freak accident that ultimately plunges the couple into hell. Effie and Doina soon join Franklin, searching for an America which promises a boundless, wonderful life – and surely doomed to failure by the oddities and evils of a world he never made.