Edward Crosby Wells

Desert Devils Edward Crosby Wells

SYNOPSIS: (4W, One Set, Full Length.) Set in the formerly oil-rich desert Southwest, Desert Devils explores the lives of three generations of women living under one roof. The story centers on Jo who, after her father dies, takes in her feisty mother. Jo's daughter, Leota Ruth, a self-mutilating poet approaching middle-age, is also in her mother's care. The dialogue between them and with a long-time neighbor is, at once, outrageously funny and heart-breakingly tragic. These women tear and rip into one another's psyche with reckless abandon and something barely resembling love. The cookies in question may or may not be poisoned, but just beneath the surface these women hide a more potent poison-the deadly venom accumulated over years of unfulfilled dreams mixed with the sudden and bitter acceptance of a life unrealized.