Despite cramped tenement living and the turmoil of bringing up seven children, there is both laughter and strength in the Morrison family. Tough and tender mother Maggie just about holds together her unruly brood against wretched poverty.
But her sniping neighbours, the flight of daughter Jenny, and the unexpected return to their overcrowded quarters of Maggie's son and his sexually restless wife slowly erodes her spirit, and then, just as temporary employment for beloved husband John affords a decent Christmas, wayward Jenny returns with new-found wealth, offering them the chance of escape but leaves them with one very large moral dilema.
Men Should Weep, was voted one of the top one hundred plays of the last century in the NT millennium.
