Candy Apples: The Drama of Being One of the Apple Sisters. (A 3 Act Play)

“…open your heart before you open your mouth.”

Candy Apples is a drama with Brenda Apple dedicating her life to remaining at home, caring for Lucy Apple, her ailing mother suffering with Alzheimer‘s. Jessie and Lynn, Brenda's sisters are suddenly drawn into providing care. For Jessie this comes naturally. For Lynn (egotistical, vivacious and extremely sarcastic), not so much.
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With more and more home bound elderly parents, the burden falls upon their children to provide care for them. Candy Apples is a play focusing on the family relationship between the care giving children as opposed to the aging parent.
The three Apple sisters are brought together in a family reunion of sorts after an incident involving Lucy, their mother.

Brenda, having taught school for 32 years, had retired to take care of the home bound Lucy. Jesse returns to the family home from her New York City nursing position. Lynn, self-centered and a vivacious spitfire, arrives from Florida.
At first they enjoy sisterly cordiality. After dinner, and after a few drinks, raw emotions are exposed as Brenda lambastes both sisters for not taking more of an interest in their family as well as the care of their mother:

BRENDA (to her sisters): What am I trying to say? Am I trying to say that my life had to end two years ago? Am I trying to say that I had to give up a job I loved - every day, for 32 years? Every day I was excited, actually excited about teaching my students. Am I trying to say that I’m a prisoner in this house? Am I trying to say that I’ve got two sisters who won’t share in this responsibility? Am I trying to say it’s a good thing mother had three daughters because two don’t give a damn? For God’s sake, both of you, open your heart before you open your mouth.

Jesse remains.

Lynn, of course, leaves. Returns. Leaves.

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