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Galla Theatre at Tivoli Square, Washington DC

2008

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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A paradoxical statement when you consider the frame: Two adult sisters sit at desks on opposite sides of the stage and correspond about their dying mother, Francisca. A family plum tree that once sheltered, fed and inebriated their guests with plum wine, evoke childhood memories. When Eleonora and Celina walk the stage and sip the wine from the family tree, the actresses practice sleight-of-land, on-stage costume changes and transform gesture and mannerism to become themselves as little girls, who pop out of the family trunk, loaded with emotional baggage. Once they played with a rat they named “Plum”; until Celina beat it to death and put it in their wardrobe to rot like an aging plum. And even though grandmother Gumersinda, tells us the secret to great wine is “the age of the plum,” the aging process is overtaking the matriarchs who over populate this house and crowd the girls’ memories. Caught in unhappy arranged marriages or love/hate relationships with each other, all are entrapped by Time, circumstance and an oppressive culture. That’s the plot.
Roaslind Lacy, DC Theatre Scene