Three men and three women portray a wide diverse range of characters - from little boys to grandfathers from giggling girls to housemaids - in this brilliantly structured play. The action takes place in an upper middle-class American dining-room the hub of social family life comprising a mosaic of interrelated scenes sometimes funny sometimes touching sometimes rueful which together create a profound study of the decaying mores of the American WASP.3 women 3 men