Balm in Gilead and Other Plays

Lanford Wilson is the rare dramatist witty and humorous who sees all his characters from the inside…Balm is life itself trapped in a play.--New YorkBalm in Gilead and Other Plays features Lanford Wilson''s first full-length play. It takes place in upper Manhattan at a greasy slum diner Frank''s cafe where drug addicts sex works and petty criminals come to escape their boredom and suffering.