Grief Cries Out In The Darkness

Exposing the raw, unsettling and complicated nature of mental illness and its impact, “ ’night, Mother,” the 1983 Pulitzer-prize-winning play by Marsha Norman, speaks even more directly to our isolated culture today than ever before. Even as the conversation between Thelma and her epileptic daughter Jessie begins as any typical night at home, it pivots sharply early on, lifting a shroud on their painful and guilt-filled lives.