One of the best scenes in Sam Shepard's enigmatic new play, Heartbreak, is a monologue by his dysfunctional family's matriarch played by the superb Lois Smith). She not only peppers her bitter aria with references from Shakespeare but uses two snappy similes to describe her devoted but mysteriously mute nurse. "Take a look at this beautiful young creature. Sentenced to silence. Numb as a stone. Dumb as toast."
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