The Glider

October 28 - 14, 2004
Boston Playwrights' Theatre Presents
The Glider
by Kate Snodgrass
directed by Wesley Savick

"Once in a while a play is written with such clarity and performed with such transparency, it's possible to forget you're in a theater and feel you're eavesdropping on a real moment in someone's life." Terry Byrne, The Boston Herald

"Deftly directed by Wesley Savick, this richly layered play is adult entertainment of the finest sort. It will leave you pondering the permeability of moral absolutes and the maddening bonds that mean family." Sandy MacDonald, EDGE Boston

"(The Glider)… may just be the best new play put up this year... Avoid regret; get tickets now." Will Stackman, On The Aisle

Kate Snodgrass is the award-winning author of Haiku and Observatory Conditions. She is the Artistic Director of our theatre, as well as a distinguished faculty member of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Boston University, and an alumna of that same program.

The history of a family dissolves into the shadows below the boat-house. Three sisters return home and struggle to find meaning in their mother's recent death and attempt to reconnect their lives out of a troubled past. Fran, who left her younger sisters years ago, returns to find a very different family than she knew. A touching, uncompromising look at family secrets and the monsters we all try to hide.