Unexpected Tenderness

By: Israel Horovitz

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Synopsis: DramaCharacters: 4 male, 3 female . Interior Set . This poignant drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family in Massachusetts is structured as a memory play. Roddy Stern recalls what it was like growing up in a family dominated by his paranoid and pathologically jealous father, a truck driver who lurked outside his house instead of working to catch his wife with other men. A long suffering and abused saint, Roddy's mother raised two children in this difficult environment. Roddy's complex father is portrayed as a loving man with a demon inside that he fights but cannot exorcize. He eventually loses all control and drives away the family he loves. . "A play of real power and dimension... It stays with the mind and heart." N.Y. Post. . "One of the most horrific but complex stage fathers in recent dramatic history." Chelsea Clinton News. . "Characters spring to immediate life and built in humor helps propel both the characterizations and the plot." Variety.