Cast
HELEN TOLL: 30 to 80. Beleaguered.
FRANK TOLL: Helen’s husband, 30 to 80. Pedantic but a peacemaker.
MARTHA WRIGHT: Helen’s mother, 50 to 80. In charge.
LEE TOLL: Helen and Frank's daughter, 40s. Also plays herself as a child.
DIANA SOLIT: Lee's best friend, 40s. Also plays herself as a child.
UNCLE RALPH: Frank's younger brother. Likes to joke.
AUNT LIZ: Ralph's wife. Likes to laugh.

Plot Summary
Little girls like to play house, and grown women sometimes spend their lives trying to make those dream houses come true. That quest mires Lee and her mother Helen in the past in this play about the seductive nature of home and family.  The only house for Lee is her grandmother Martha’s place, where she spent summers as a child. While waiting for that perfect home, Lee never chooses or commits to a home of her own. When Martha Wright dies and Helen decides to sell the Wright place, a convoluted family struggle begins. Meanwhile, Lee’s best friend Diana goes on a lifelong search for the ideal house and family; a journey that takes her from a hippie farm to a suburban paradise, and from a traveling camper to a church shelter.

The Setting
The house where Martha Wright and her husband started married life in 1918. It's in an oceanside town in New England, where Martha grew up and raised her daughter Helen, and where Helen's husband Frank grew up. Wicker or bamboo furniture for the yard and sunporch, and a big table for the kitchen and dining room.

Diana’s many houses, represented by props or set pieces brought in by Lee and Diana.

The Time - 1953-1990; 1994-95.

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