![]() ![]() Lenny stands up for Meg, chasing Chick out of the house. Lenny comes back downstairs and Chick arrives to tell the sisters that it is awful Meg is their sister. Meg leaves with Barnette to go buy Lenny a birthday cake. Barnette shows up to collect the photos and tells Babe that he had a plan for her case. Lenny goes upstairs, and Babe shows Meg the photos. Lenny tells them that she doesn't want to be alone, and Meg tells her that she should call an old lover. The sisters told Meg that their grandfather will more than likely die soon, and they start laughing. Meg comes home happy and tells her sisters that she realized she had empathy for others. Lenny tells Babe that she wished that Old Granddaddy would pass and that they didn't all fight so much. Chick goes home to make some phone calls. Lenny tells her that he will more than likely die soon. In Act Three, Chick asks how Old Granddaddy is. She starts to panic, but Lenny comes downstairs to tell them that Old Granddaddy had another stroke. Babe comes to look for her sister but finds her lawyer, Barnette with photos of her and hew lover, Willie Jay. After a pause, Doc offers to go for a ride and look at the moon. Meg explains that she went to the psych ward and her life had gone downhill. Meg and Doc reconnect about the hurricane and why they separated due to Meg leaving town. This leads Meg to make Lenny cry, and Babe follows her to comfort her. Meg apologizes for lying to her grandfather and it starts an argument. Meg arrives home with alcohol and a newspaper for Babe. Lenny arrives home and tells Babe that she is frustrated with Meg because she lied to their grandfather about her success. They receive a phone call telling Barnette that there is new evidence he needs to pick up at the hospital. In Act Two, Babe's lawyer is going over her case with her as she tells him what happened. The scene continues with more exposition about the case and what is happening with the sisters. Babe then arrives and excited to see her sister, but promptly leaves after being scolded by Chick. Meg tells Lenny about her failed singing career. Meg then arrives home and hears the news about what Babe has done she has shot her husband. Doc leaves shortly after to go pick up his son from the dentist. Doc gave her the pecans because it is her birthday and her horse has died. Doc enters with a bag of pecans for Lenny, and Chick leaves. Chick then gives Lenny a birthday present a box of chocolates. Chick mentions that Doc is crippled with a limp due to Meg's actions and does not want her to come home. They start talking about what is happening with the sisters. In Act One, Lenny and Chick walk into the scene talking about the news that is in the paper. Each sister is forced to face the consequences of the "crimes of the heart" she has committed. Past resentments bubble to the surface as the sisters are forced to deal with assorted relatives and past relationships while coping with Babe's latest incident. ![]() Each has endured her share of hardship and misery. The sisters were raised in a dysfunctional family with a penchant for ugly predicaments. The tragicomedy relates the story of the three Magrath sisters, Meg, Babe, and Lenny, who reunite at Old Granddaddy's home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, after Babe shoots her abusive husband.
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