Overview
In this provocative, sometimes chilling comedy, Wilder renders a child's-eye view of the grown-up world, as a father, a mother and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe in which the children pretend to be orphans. Startling truths emerge on both sides, as pretense challenges the family to discard the traditional roles of parent, spouse, child and sibling – blurring the lines between perception and reality, artifice and innocence.
Published in Thorton Wilder One Act Series: The Ages of Man.