Description

Property is about the doom and delight of too much wealth. Greed permeates this contemporary romantic comedy set in a Garden District mansion in New Orleans. A young man is caught between his dedication to his family’s past (and ‘property’) and his own very different future. Should he follow his heart and marry a New-Age nurse or succumb to his imperious society-driven mother Irene Dubonnet and drop her? The satire intensifies because it’s carnival in New Orleans when old and new traditions and masked traditions consume the family. Property is a sequel to O’Neill’s card plays Wishing Aces, Solitaire, and Black Jack, about matriarch Irene Dubonnet with many family members reappearing. The selective staging of a dayroom during Mardi Gras time draped with beads and costumes adds a heightened theatricality.