The Quality of Life

Dinah and Bill, a devout, church-going couple from the Midwest are struggling to keep their lives intact after the loss of their daughter

Dinah is compelled to reconnect with her left-leaning cousins in Northern California who're going through their own trials

Jeannette and Neil have lost their home to a wildfire and Neil has cancer

However they seem to have accepted their situation with astounding good humor, living in a yurt on their burn site and celebrating life with hits of pot and glasses of good red wine

Bill and Dinah are both moved and perplexed by their cousins' remarkable equanimity

But their sympathy turns to rage when they find out that Jeannette is planning to take her own life to avoid a life of grief without her beloved Neil ...

"Jane Anderson explores a myriad of ethical, religious, and moral beliefs, as well as (some would say) personal rights issues concerning life and death in her remarkable and completely engrossing new play" ~ Terri Roberts, Theater Mania

2007 Ted Schmitt Award for the world premiere of an Outstanding New Play ~ Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle

2008 Ovation Award for Best New Play