Perhaps its issues didn’t strike the journalists as sufficiently “epic,” but I think it’s pretty damn near perfectly written. As someone with mentally ill family members, its dramatization of Catherine, Claire, and even Robert’s fears of how the disease may affect their own lives (not to mention the lives of their loved ones) struck me as harrowingly honest in a way that August Osage County—a grander play that touches on similar issues and DID make the list—does not.
