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Synopsis: The story is set in 1942. Eddie, a widower, is panic stricken when he has to persuade iron-clad German Grandma Kurnitz to take in his two young sons, Jay and Artie, so he can travel on an extended sales trip to earn money for his family. There we also meet Aunt Bella, slightly simple in the head; Uncle Louie, a small-time gangster; and Aunt Gert, who tends to keep talking whenever she breathes in. At the coreof it, "Lost in Yonkers" is a play about finding one's way through the tangled webs of familial relationships and attempting to survive life without losing the sense of self.
Synopsis
The play is set on a health farm owned and run by Julia Dickerby with the unwilling help from Roland her Husband who is under the ever present beady eye of his
Mother-in-law Olivia. It was bought with the insurance money from the death of Julia’s first Husband Sidney. However Sidney might be ‘Dead’ but he is only going
to lie down when he regains the proceeds of a safe deposit box that Julia has the key too. So he makes an unwelcome visit to the farm. His visit could not have been
more inopportune as it coincides with the arrival of Vanessa the wife of the Roland’s ex-boss at the Kindly Mutual Insurance Company the very company that paid out
on Sidney’s death. Kindly Mutual is where Roland worked and where he met Julia.
If life couldn’t get any more complicated for Roland as he tries to keep Sidney and Julia and her domineering Mother apart the arrival of Police-woman Campbell the
leader of the Police Choir and an increasingly irate and hungry guest called Hooper all add to his stress levels.
Characters
There is some flexibility with the ages; however, in an Ideal world Julia, Roland and Sidney should be around the same age, which can be from late
twenties/thirties/forties.
The Police Woman could be younger and at a pinch she can become a he as she changed sex in the second cast in the script.
Olivia obviously has to be old enough to play Julia’s Mother and Hooper can be older too.