Synopsis

The central character in the play is Susan, a parson's wife. While the parson lives for his great work - which is actually nothing more than a 60-page history of the parish for the civic society - he is ministered to by his wife and sister, an equally unhappy and unfulfilled widow. Susan's vitality is directed into an active fantasy life, peopling the play with an idealized family, invisible to others, which positively mirrors the negative gaps in her own reality.