Mack Edwards

A three-character ensemble play set entirely in a Lower East Side of Manhattan tenement apartment.

"The play was quite funny, the characters well developed and quirky. I especially enjoyed Brody's conversations with his cat and the developing relationship between Michelle and Mrs. Schnur."... 

Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director Primary Stages New York City. 

   Michelle Caruso and Gertrude Schnur couldn't be more different.     

      The prior sassy, sleek and fortyish. A wordly, haute-coutured, Ivy League-educated feminist who considers organized religion a pox on woman-kind. The concepts "God" and "pischer" interchangeable. The geopolitical gains religious conservatives making dangerous inroads to solidify the second class status of women.        

      The latter sixty-plus, plump and pliant. Her wardrobe, Russian peasant. Her schooling, the type hard knocks teach. From birth, the center of her world God's mandate to set her needs aside, focus on marriage, keeping her home Kosher, and her husband's needs met.   

      The one thing these opposites have in common is the love and respect of an eccentric, down and out writer named Brody McGovern.

      Oh and there's MacGyver that cat Mr. Leynse mentioned with whom Brody has a love-hate relationship. He's never seen, but his presence is always felt. 

      While set in the present, it takes me back to my days growing up in the tenements on Manhattan's Lower East Side where, for we Shabbat goyim, Yiddish was a second language.

      Some see the play as an escapist, ninety-minute comedic romp. Some as a parable  told by a common man.

      I leave it for audiences to decide.