-Playwright-
Robert Merrill
All the Jagged Edges
When the language of love is foreign to a family, how do they relate to each other and how does mental illness make creating connections even more difficult? This theme is explored in this eight-person, single-set drama.
Production History
2020: Riverside Community Players (staged reading)/Patrick Brien, Director
2019: First public reading
Cast of Characters
Lane Jackson
a middle-aged woman with multiple mental health issues
Marian Rafter
a recently divorced earth-mother type
Lexi Rafter
Marian’s daughter, small for her age, sharper than most adults, fragile at times and too forward at others
Odell
a near-end-of-career county worker
Cathy /Carl
a neighbor from hell
Ibrahim
One who does the right thing only because it’s required
Chae
One who does the right thing only because it’s the right thing to do
Rusty Jackson
Lane’s brother, so obsessed with his sister’s issues that he doesn’t always recognize his own