The quietly intimidating interloper who wanders in to a household to stir up a family drama is not an unfamiliar dramatic trope. The intruder in Lyle Kessler’s Philadelphia household comes disguised first as victim, then slowly exerts his dominance until he is ruling the roost.
The family here consists of two oddball brothers; Phillip (Fred Woodley Evans) is the younger, more vulnerable and apparently housebound. Treat (Chris Walley) is more volubly in charge, and a petty thief in the outside world.
