THE STORY: In FLYWHEEL AND ANNA, a middle-aged couple from New York’s Little Italy are summering in a small house on the Long Island shore. Although he doesn’t realize it, she hates the place and yearns for home, and she is stunned when he announces that he has given up their city apartment and bought the house with money secretly hoarded over the years. Bitter over the realization of all that his withholding of the money has denied them and their children, her frustrations and resentments pour out in an explosive confrontation which neither had expected but from which neither had expected but from which both will benefit.
“An ability to write pungent, idiomatic, urban speech, and a willingness to let human passions overflow on the stage.” —The New York Times.
Included in the collection
Cacciatore: Three Short Plays.
