Marvin’s Room

In his critically acclaimed and hilariously
offbeat play, Scott McPherson takes an
original look at the irrepressible nature
of the human spirit in the face of death. His heroine, Bessie, has her hands full
watching after her disabled aunt and trying to keep her bedridden father, Marvin,
from swallowing Yahtzee dice. Bessie just wants to make their last few years as
comfortable as possible. But when she is diagnosed with leukemia, it is Bessie
who will have to learn to depend on others – namely, her long-estranged sister
and the arsonist nephew she may have to rely on for a possible bone marrow
transplant. At once uproariously comical, emotionally charged, and insightful,
Marvin’s Room is stunning recognition of how life does indeed go on.