Word: matriarchate
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After Rosa's death. Clara retreats into silence from the shock, emerging from her personal dream world 20 years later to marry Esteban herself and begin her life as matriarch of the Trueba family. the grown Clara (Meryl Streep) and much older Esteban (Jeremy Irons with another layer of make-up) move to Tres Marias, a restored country estate, where they are joined by Esteban's mysterious spinster sister, Ferula (Glenn Close...
...called it the biggest single instance of child neglect in Chicago's past quarter-century. Seven adults were arrested: six for child negligence, a misdemeanor, and one for cruelty, a felony. Neighbors seemed to agree that Maxine Melton meant well and kept faith as the family's de facto matriarch. But not all her housemates were as strong: a sixth woman was out at the time of the raid because she was giving birth; the child was born with a coke addiction...
...Given Day takes place a few years before Roses. The central characters were offstage presences in that play: a manipulative matriarch (Thompson in peak form) and her mentally and physically handicapped grandson. The new work also concerns itself with two marriages, one contemplated and one in danger of breaking up, plus tuberculosis, a son's going off to World War II, and the matriarch's claims to foretell the future...
...matriarch of the family (Judith Malina) is tradition's slave. When she dies, Catherine rids her house of the dark ornaments of Catholicism, deciding to become a middle-class housewife more in tune with the times. The strongest tie is between grandmother and grand-daughter, who have never known each other, but who share a spirit which bypasses the middle-of-the-road Catherine. Teresa reclaims her grandmother's exigent religious fanaticism. But religion liberates Teresa from her present life, instead of tying her down...
...Aside from the fact that she looks like a man in a bad wig, she struggles to conceal her cockney accent and is inexpressive at best. Lili Taylor as Teresa tries too hard to convey a lowly monastic plainness, ending up as flat as Ullman. Judith Malina plays the matriarch Carmela as charmingly as an unfed pit-bull...