Orphans

Off-Broadway audiences gave this moving drama standing ovations. Orphans tells the story of two brothers in North Philly. Although they are adults, there is something child-like about these orphans. The older one supports himself and his innocent brother by petty thievery. One night he brings home a rich guy to get him drunk and roll him. It turns out that Harold is very rich–and on the lam from others who want to kill him. Harold establishes the house as a base of operations and, in a strange, hilarious and moving way, becomes the father figure the boys have always yearned for.