BY KAREN D’SOUZA, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

Excerpt:…Mary McGloin delivers a standout turn as Terry, the feistiest of the daughters, who campaigns for women’s rights. McGloin struts on stage with a head of steam massive enough to make us believe she’s gutsy enough to have been an activist in those days. When the homespun Liz tries to serve her daughter Helen (Valerie Weak) tea and whiskey to calm her consumption, McGloin as Terry visibly holds back her tongue. If she knows better than to treat tuberculosis with booze, she also knows better than to argue with her mother. Her fiery disposition and the dulcet musical interludes…. go a long way toward capturing the lyrical rhythms of this faraway time and place…