"Independence", by Lee Blessing

A full length play by Lee Blessing ("Last of the Red-Hot Lovers"), "Independence" tells the story of the Briggs women -- a mother and her three daughters struggling for companionship and-- you guessed it -- independence, in small-town America. I play Sherry, a fifth-year high school senior with an attitude problem, whose attempts to escape from under her mother's control result in ever-present friction and bitterness between her and her siblings.