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  February 14 - March 1, 2009.
Preview Performance February 13.
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday
1.30 p.m. Sunday matinee
2000-2001 Winner of the Spotlight On Best Play Award for Excellence in Off-Off Broadway Theatre
Diva, Lillian, and Tink (three men in drag) are having a yard sale to raise funds for a Faberge egg in which to place the ashes of Diva's dead husband. Diva bosses Lillian, whose principal expertise is making punch with ingredients that could fuel a rocket. Tink is confined to a wheelchair, mostly comatose, but when she does try to make herself heard, the others invariably misunderstand, causing dire consequences. The miscommunications of this misfit trio cause a friend to be run over by a pickup truck while trying to cross the street with her walker. We meet an entire neighborhood of characters through the eyes of the "ladies" during the course of their yard sale, including Diva's mother who has the yard wired with eavesdropping devices and is listening in from her room in a nursing home across the street. Finally, in an explosive climax, the day's shenanigans result in a police shootout when someone plays with a starter pistol filled with blanks. This is a raucous, raunchy, gut-busting, more than a laugh-a-minute play.
". . .a trashy delight . . .Diva and Lillian hark straight back to Jackie Gleason and Art Carney . . .and finally, a la South Park, results in a police shootout when someone plays with a cap gun, a satisfying result for a laff-a-minute, harebrained play. It takes place on a suburban planet of its own." -John Chatterton, OOBR
"This play does what Beckkett was trying to do but Beckett was too squeamish to face the decline of the West. Wells faces them with hilarious completeness, and therefore is able to be both funnier and more tragic thank Becket ever was." -Robert Patrick, Playwright
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