A Staged Reading in the CWP Black Box Theatre
In this classic comedy, unemployed television writer Murray Burns lives in a cluttered New York City studio apartment with his 12-year-old nephew, Nick. Murray has been unemployed for five months after quitting his previous job: writing jokes for a children's television show. Nick, the illegitimate son of Murray's sister, was left with Murray seven years earlier. When Nick writes a school essay on the benefits of unemployment insurance, his school requests that New York State send social workers to investigate his living conditions. Investigators for the Child Welfare Board, Sandra Markowitz, and her superior and boyfriend Albert Amundson, threaten Murray with removal of the child from his custody unless he can prove he is a capable guardian.