Synopsis:
A desperate woman is trapped on a ranch in the Arizona desert, She is at war. Obsessed and enraged (and highly unaware of any of her neuroses), Opal Massey's highest ambition is to appear "educated," "pleasant," and ". . - fair, aren't I always fair?" While forging on with her Panzer-division style; her mission is to break the will of her two worst enemies: who are her only two friends in life - her mother and her brother. The old pioneer mother is bent on death, but first on revenge; the brother, an hysterical Good Old Boy In a deep depression, for salvation is bent on marriage to the town's honky tonk whore. All this against our Opal's design, and without her knowledge. Three over-lapping love triangles in the story tend to obscure, for Opal, "the facts." Full length, Setting: a ranch-house; time, 1976. 2 males, 3 females, Production note: Cabrona would require minimal or expressionistic staging, to counteract the seeming "naturalism" of the script, And to encourage any of its para-farcicalness.
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