Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to participate in the “we of me,” and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family members cook, Berenice. Probably one of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast efficiency featuring:

June Angela as Janice and Helen

John Cothran Jr. as T.T. Williams

Ruby Dee as Bernice Sadie Brown

Daniel Henson as John Henry Western world

Victor Mack seeing that Honey Camden Dark brown

Jena Malone as Frankie Addams

Lawrence Pressman seeing that Mr. Addams

Jacquelyn Riggs as Mrs. Western world and Doris

Tegan Western as Jarvis and Barney MacKean

Directed by Judyann Elder. Recorded before a live audience in the Skirball Cultural Middle, Los Angeles.