THE STORIES: Goodbye, Howard. In a North Carolina hospital, three aging spinster sisters wait for news of their brother's death. As they worry about breaking the news to their elderly mother, a brash young man—who seems to lack the proper respect for the aged and the dying—suddenly intrudes on the sad tidings. (2 men, 4 women.)
In the second play,
F.M., a creative writing teacher is at first appalled and then awed by the earthly brilliance of one of her pupils—a whiskey-guzzling, dirty-mouthed, vagabond—whose primitive genius puts his dilettante classmates to shame. (1 man, 3 women.)
