The Woodwards’ adopted daughter, Elizabeth, is missing; Paula has hidden her away. The girl’s original family wants her back, and a court hearing has been ordered to decide the issue, but Paula isn’t taking the slightest chance that she could lose the case, and thus, her daughter. As an attorney for the State, Alan is deeply devoted to his job and the letter of the law, but now finds he must choose between that devotion and his family. Legal arguments and procedure mesh with a domestic battle, in which morality, the law and their marriage are put on trial before the audience as jury.
Closing Argument concerns parental and marital love vs. duty, a mother’s right to protect and keep her child, and the true purpose of the law.

On the day before his brother’s funeral, Charlie Slater has to write his eulogy. It’s no easy task for a religious man who firmly believes in a literal bible. Buddy was everything Charlie has tried not to be, yet always seems to have been rewarded in life, while Charlie has struggled along. Making the job even harder, Buddy is still on his case, not only to get the eulogy written, but also to face up to his own life of resentment as being of his own creation. Charlie must eventually admit to and try to repair his failures with his wife and son, before confessing to having committed the worst sin of all against his brother.
The Weed Garden is about jealousy. It shows the folly of holding inflexible definitions of right and wrong and how the motivations for doing so are selfish, leading to disaster.

Clarence Marsh, just released after serving twenty years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit, appears at the home of James Burke, the man who sent him there. He’s come to fulfill his one remaining goal in life, to exact justice from a rogue cop who didn’t make a mistake, but a deliberate judgment based on race and circumstance. Their confrontation, interspersed with flashbacks, reveals how the actions of one man destroyed both lives. It's now between two men consumed by hate, one for the other, the other ultimately for himself. Still, Burke steadfastly clings to justifications for what he did, believing himself a victim who was deserted in his time of need; his admission of guilt comes only under physical duress, and has the same hollow ring as Marsh’s confession years earlier. Marsh is not only obsessed with his need to make Burke pay, he’s also sick and dying; the ability to choose how the rest of his life unfolds is precious, and he’s chosen to embrace the bitterness he’s nurtured for so many years. With apology and forgiveness rendered impossible, the two will forever be at each other’s throats.
Nor Iron Bars a Cage is about loss, blame and vengeance, and the cancerous nature of hatred. It is symbolic of racism in America.