“An amiable comedy about a classic Southern dragon lady mother….sharply written… fl awlessly elegant….poignantly evokes the passing years”-The New Yorker. Meet Vada Love Powell, the overbearing but oh-so-genteel matriarch who put the “mother” in “smother.” Vada is left shocked when her only beloved child Apple elopes. Before long the whole town is drowning in gossip like biscuits in gravy. An off-Broadway hit, this Southern fried comedy is a delightful refl ection on age and change.