Alternately hilarious and heart-stopping, Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord (1926) tells the story of the sweetly tyrannical, Mrs. Phelps - the mother of all mothers - and one of the great villains in all of American drama. Pathologically devoted to her two adult sons, Mrs. Phelps is driven to new heights of manipulation and intrigue when her eldest son returns home with his new bride - a modern woman with her own care…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:28PM on January 4, 2013