
"A weird, wonderful thriller filled with suspense, pathos and packing an
emotional wallop"
-WMCA Radio
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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. |

"Keeps you transfixed."-N.Y. Daily News |