uses mime, music, and masks to present in a sometimes abstract, sometimes realistic way the relationship of a mother and her two daughters; especially the effects of what they have been taught about themselves and the possibilities of their growth.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

You saw me as a child
Girl in a wedding dress, white and serene.
But the veil is woven with yesterday's
    sorrows
and its promises have born me no fruit.
The world denies me
my worth:    no husband
no children, no job, no good.
I am a stranger at 28.

You saw my life
a life that splintered my soul,
that has held my sister in fear,
and my mother, and her mother before us.
How long till we learn
that the hand of another in ours
will give us strength?

That long ago Jenny you saw is here.
My friends, you hold her in your soul.
She has not settled down.
She will never settle down.
This is the legacy I will leave you:
for we are in the corner no longer.
                        -Micaela Massimino
 

Scene One:    The Backyard. Stephanie taunts Jennifer, "You're going to be an old maid."

Scene Two:    A Wedding Dress Shop. Rachel tells her daughter, "This is the only way I know."

Scene Three:    Jennifer's Living Room in Seattle. "I don't know what I want to do."

Scene Four:    A Factory. "Somewhere along the line we're going to have to take some risks."

Scene Five:    The Kitchen. "If you can't change, you'll never change the world."