Wrenching but funny play finishes sweetly.(City/Region)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | January 14, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: Dorothy Velasco For The Register-Guard

How long does it take to prepare and bake a blueberry pie? About 95 minutes if it's done during a touching performance of "Memory House," now playing at Lord Leebrick Theatre.

The play by Kathleen Tolan takes place in "real time," starting at 9 p.m. on New Year's Eve in a New York apartment. Maggie, the mother, and Katia, the adopted daughter, both have a finite task before them.

Maggie is about to make a pie, one of the first she's ever made, and Katia is balking at finishing a college application ...

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