The play, at the Arden, is immense not only in its ambitions but also in its length (3½ hours) and in its scope: generations of monsters, each vying for sympathy, understanding, and love, from the matriarch Violet (the excellent Carla Belver) to her granddaughter (Dylan Gelula). It's about surviving poverty, claw-hammer abuse, guilt, drugs, whiskey, infidelities, betrayals. We watch a family ferociously shred one …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:16AM on October 7, 2011