Balm in Gilead and Other Plays

About this book

"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.