Vigil

Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis is Grace, a woman of few words and the aunt of Kemp, who –after 30 years– has traveled cross-country to be with her on her deathbed.

Kemp’s problem is: she’s not dying fast enough.

This delightfully dark narrative is fueled by Kemp’s diatribes on humanity and mortality, but it is Grace’s concise contributions to the dialogue that give this insightfully witty play its complexity and depth.