Confirmation

Grandma is visiting Mother, who lives in Grandma's backyard - a backyard replete with furniture and kitchen appliances. And Mother is planning a surprise birthday party for Grandma, who claims to have been born more than a hundred years ago. But Grandma doesn't like parties any more than she likes the daughters who pop up at various moments in this hilarious play. There is Sister, a nun, who magically appears from behind a tree, accompanied by her lesbian lover, Carmelita, also a nun. And Mother has even tracked down the lost sister, Blanche, who was - according to the family legend - taught to speak only Norwegian, but who, in fact, speaks only stage Yiddish. These sisters and their mother endure a series of ridiculous encounters revealing their long-harbored loves and hates for one another. But Carmelita - stranger and intruder - changes everything. Desperate to become "one of the family," she gradually uncovers their secrets, including the past existence of a brother, who appears to her as a ghost and convinces her that she is his daughter. Whether she is "family" or not, she leads both characters and audience into a bizarre series of events.