Cassandra medley biography

There are plenty of plays about dysfunctional families, but what "Ma Rose" captures so well is the tangled way this family communicates with one another. Everyone is speaking for themselves but nobody hears what they're really trying to say. Their true concerns and frustrations are constantly kept in check or hidden in order to avoid confrontations. 9 times out of 10 this doesn't work- maybe because deep down the characters know that a blowout might be the only way out.

There are cycles between mothers and daughters involving four generations and patterns of physical and emotional abuse. As the titular character shows the earliest and most frightening symptoms of dementia (this was portrayed with unfaltering accuracy), each scene shows the cracks between her daughter and granddaughter getting larger and more difficult to ignore. Both women want to be loved and accepted by their mothers, bristling at their dismissals and rejections until they snap. One scene highlights the way a child can ask a parent the simplest questions and how they can effortlessly s

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