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"A weird, wonderful thriller filled with suspense, pathos and packing an emotional wallop"

-WMCA Radio

 

ORPHANS
by Lyle Kessler

Comic Drama

Off-Broadway audiences gave this moving drama standing ovations.

Treat, who is streetwise, violent, and continually in trouble with the law, has raised Phillip, his childlike, reclusive younger brother, since their mother's death.   Their father deserted the family long ago.   Treat gets by primarily though robbing people and committing petty crimes in North Philadelphia.  One night, he brings home Harold, a well-dressed drunk he met in a bar, and decides to hold him hostage.  Harold, who is an orphan himself, can't be restrained, however, and the next morning takes over the household.  In a strange, hilarious and moving way, becomes the  father figure that the two boys have always yearned for.

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"Keeps you transfixed."

-N.Y. Daily News