RIP Buster. He’s in a better place where he won’t have to wear that cone of shame. Still, the news is hard for five-year-old Graciela. Her pet’s death is the first she has encountered. She blames her parents: “You made my doggy dead.”
First it’s Buster then, five years later, Grandma. As Jacob Marx Rice’s play proceeds to commemorate each loved one who dies during Graciela’s life, the suspense – and rising death toll – momentarily evokes an Agatha Christie thriller. Yet the only mystery is the eternal one: not whodunnit but what happens afterwards.
