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Lenny Magrath is not having a very good morning. Her youngest sister, Babe, is in jail for shooting her husband. Their middle sister, Meg, has not returned Lenny鈥檚 calls. And to top it off, no one seems to remember that today is Lenny鈥檚 thirtieth birthday. As Lenny sits down at her kitchen table for a small moment to celebrate by herself, she hears the front door slam. Meg is home, and the two have a lot of catching up to do.
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Start: Meg: I鈥檓 home! Anybody home?!! Lenny: Meg? Meg! Meg: Lenny - Lenny: Well, Meg! Why, Meg! Oh, Meggy! Why didn鈥檛 you call?
End: Meg: Struck dead. Oh, what a mess. What a mess. Are you really thirty? Then I must be twenty-seven and Babe is twenty-four. My god, we鈥檙e getting so old.
(Henley, Beth. Crimes of the Heart. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1981, pp. 12-14.)
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