First produced at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, in Minneapolis, this brilliant and highly imaginative play went on to a subsequent and much discussed Broadway presentation with Eileen Heckart in the central role. Bizarre in style, yet filled with an arresting immediacy and perceptiveness, the play deals with a strange, intriguing family which has barricaded itself away in a cellar, seeking sanctuary from the fearsome, sinister world "outside." Led by Ruby, the mother, they lure others to their lair to be seduced and taunted and ultimately destroyed-just as they, in turning so violently from life, must inevitably bring on their own destruction as well. ".the most impressive new American play I have seen this season." -Village Voice. ".serious, ambitious, daring, often verbally brilliant.

" -Minneapolis Tribune.