In this collection of plays, Irish immigrants cope with family tension, betrayal, love, death-and the inevitable and unintended hilarity of dysfunctional relationships.

Wake Me is set at a funeral home in Boston, tracing the life of one family through a series of wakes. In the first scenes, the young narrator, Neely, and his raucous Irish family mourn the death of his beloved grandfather Dinny. Though the old man didn't follow the straight and narrow, Neely loved being with his grandfather as he worked as a bookie for the Italian mob. More family drama and secrets unfold as...