Five Rooms of Furniture

In a Chicago south side basement, the disabled Rufus lives in self-imposed exile, lamenting his broken marriage and his happy years as the beloved gardener of a wealthy Holocaust survivor. Upstairs, his timid niece Vernell shelters her mentally ill husband Gary while serving as a buffer between Rufus and his controlling sister, Ina Mae. Rufus assuages his battered confidence by keeping secret his ownership of a large amount of valuable furniture bequeathed to him by his former employer. But when his troubled, materialistic daughter Rachel returns from the military with entrepreneurial plans, the family exorcises old demons and confronts how secrets from the past shape the present and determine the future. Jonathan Wilson direct’s Jennifer Maisel’s play, Five Rooms of Furniture.