Crazy Mama: A True Story of Love and Madness
Playwright Williams begins with an image whose simplicity makes its horror all the more immediate. Sharon, eight years old, hurries home after her birthday, intent on claiming the remaining piece of cake before her older brother, and discovers her mother in the throes of a psychotic episode, armed with a kitchen knife and unreachable by ordinary language. From that rupture, Williams constructs a memory play that move…