Yummy Beans

Amid the hurly burly of getting the extended family's Thanksgiving dinner on the table, a daughter hears the echoes of her mother as she braves the holiday for the first time as the family matriarch. A Christmas version is also available.

Amid the hurly burly of getting the extended family's Thanksgiving dinner on the table, a daughter hears the echoes of her mother as she braves the holiday for the first time as the family matriarch. A Christmas version is also available.

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Yummy Beans

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  • Arianna Rose: Yummy Beans

    A touching and funny short play about expectations - the ones we lay on ourselves, the ones we are burdened with by others, and finding that place where it's 'good enough'. Playwright Mark Mulkerin uses a Thanksgiving get-together to explore the ghosts of meals past and the promise-or dread - of meals future in this beautiful story about traditions handed down and the people we miss. Required reading and hopefully will be a part of holiday play festivals forever.

    A touching and funny short play about expectations - the ones we lay on ourselves, the ones we are burdened with by others, and finding that place where it's 'good enough'. Playwright Mark Mulkerin uses a Thanksgiving get-together to explore the ghosts of meals past and the promise-or dread - of meals future in this beautiful story about traditions handed down and the people we miss. Required reading and hopefully will be a part of holiday play festivals forever.

Daughter - 30s-40s, female, any race/ethnicity, the newly self-appointed family glue

Mom - 60s-70s, female, any race/ethnicity that would work with the Daughter, the opinionated and deceased former matriarch

Spouse - age about the same as Daughter, any gender (change pronouns as appropriate), any race/ethnicity, the dutiful husband or wife of the Daughter