A Death in the Family

In a highly charged and intimate family setting, three generations confront each other. At the centre of the story is Marguerite (Marie Christine Barrault), a pugnacious grandmother who has reluctantly moved into a nursing home, and her overwhelmed daughter with her two temperamental teenagers. Alexander Zeldin draws on his own childhood in this intergenerational story in which old age is a trigger for the painful revival of the death of his father, whose ghost looms large. With a troupe of amateur and professional actors, Zeldin uncompromisingly (but often humorously) shares a theatrical journey to borderline states caused by the universal experience of the failure of the body and the coming of death.