1. What images or moments from the show have stayed with you or stood out to you?
2. Could you relate to the Weston family?
3. Why with such dark subject matter was the play funny? What made you laugh?
4. Did anything in the play make you uncomfortable?
5. Was there anything in the play you did not understand or did not agree with?
6. What does Bill mean when he says that he’s “got the Plains.”?
7. Is it wrong for children to move away from their parents, especially away from elderly parents with mental and physical illnesses?
8. Do you think Violet wanted or allowed her husband Beverly to commit suicide?
9. What do you think will happen to Violet and Johnna?
10. Do you think the Weston family will ever come together again?
5. I was confused about Beverly staying at the motel before he died? And what happened to the money? It is 1/31/2014 and I have just seen the film in Santa Barbara.
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