Quiet! Three Ladies Laughing at Crystal Theatre

In the long, hot summer of 1943, in the small Alabama town of Sulligent, Mama Nolan lays dying in her bed. Ada Lou, her youngest daughter, summons Lottie, the older sister in Chicago, and Eva, the middle sister in Mobile, to rally at Mama's bedside. It is there, with Mama's cantankerous sister, Edna, along with Miss White, a family-retainer who hails from the Appalachian Mountains, will Mama Nolan spend her final moments on earth. Mama has only a few hours left as Lottie, Eva, and Ada Lou gather on the sleeping porch to spend the evening awaiting their brother Earle's late return from an Army Boot Camp. The play, written is a bitter-sweet, semi-biographical story rooted in sentiment, humor, and pathos that speaks to a contemporary audience and their sensibilities