9-26-19 M&D night, Mother
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Mary Bastoni (left) and June Desmond star in M&D at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse's production of Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “’night, Mother,” which opened Thursday, Sept. 26. (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)

CONWAY — M&D at Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse is taking on the subject of suicide with its production of Marsha Norman’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “’night, Mother,” which opened Thursday, Sept. 26, with performances Thursday through Sunday for the next two weeks.

Jessie (June Desmond) is a divorced middle-aged woman who lives with and takes care of her mother Thelma (Mary Bastoni). As the show opens, she casually declares she is going to kill herself at the end of the night. What follows is a real-time depiction of Jessie explaining her reasons for wanting to die and Thelma trying to convince her not to go through with it.

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June Desmond (left) and Mary Bastoni star in M&D at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse's production of “’night, Mother.” (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)

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