One of the key things about "David's Mother" is that it isn’t plot driven but rather character-driven. It focuses around its characters and let those characters take charge of where the story goes. Through the use of touching scenes between Sally and David, and sisterly banter between Sally and Bea, we begin to better understand Sally and her character. We also see, in flashbacks, how Sally's obsessive connection to David drives away her husband and daughter. Simmering underneath is the question - first implied, later stated - of whether Sall

The catharsis in the script occurs when Sally becomes aware of what she has been doing all along. When David demonstrates that he can indeed learn by putting in his own video tape, Sally realizes that rather than sheltering him from the world, she has been holding him back from the world, and not letting David realize his full potential. She realizes she has been using David as an excuse her whole life. He is an excuse to why her marriage failed, why her daughter hates her, why she’s poor, why her apartment’s a mess, why she can’t find another man to love her. The climax then takes place when she decides to let David go with Gladys because she now knows that it is what’s best for him. Once David leaves, Sally slowly tries to piece her life back together, one step at a time, starting with rearranging her furniture and then ending the play with her trying to mend things with her daughter, this being the dénouement for the script.

y truly holds David's best interest at heart or whether she's using him to avoid emotional involvement with anyone else. It's all done through smart, pointed dialogue and a logical sequence of events.

In the script, the off-beat dark humor in Sally’s remarks creates much needed comic relief at some points. They come off as vicious and unfair and can make an au

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