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Meg starts. She brushes her hair out of her face and goes to answer the door. It is Doc. Hello, Meggy. well, Doc. well, it's Doc. (After a pause.) You're home, Meggy. just broke it all off 'cause of Old Granddaddy! What a jackass fool! BABE. Oh, Meg, shut up!
Lenny stands up for Meg, chasing Chick out of the house. She then calls her old lover and they make a date. She goes outside to find Meg, and while she is gone Babe tries to kill herself. Meg comes home to find Babe, and Babe reveals she knows why their mother killed the cat when she killed herself.
- Beth Henley
- 1982
Crimes of the Heart (full play) ACT 11 The lights go up on the kitchen. It is later that evening on the same day. Meg's suitcase has been moved upstairs. Babe's saxophone has been taken out of the case and put together. Babe and Barnette are sitting at the kitchen table.
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Meg, the middle sister, left home to pursue stardom as a singer in Los Angeles, but has, so far, only found happiness at the bottom of a bottle. And Babe, the youngest, has just been arrested for the murder of her abusive husband, Zackery Bottrelle.
CRIMES OF THE HEART The lights go up on the empty kitchen. It is late afternoon. Lenny Magrath, a thirty-year-old woman with a round figure and face, enters from the back door carrying a white suitcase, a saxophone case, mad a brown paper sack.
The play introduces conflict in act one, complicates it in act two, and resolves it in act three. Through the macabre sense of humor, this play has mated the conventions of naturalistic play with unconventional characters of absurdist tragicomedy. Crimes of the Heart has a highly structured plot.
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Crimes of the Heart is a play in three acts about three sisters—Lenny MaGrath, Meg MaGrath, and Babe Botrelle—who find life to be too difficult sometimes but who discover the courage and...