It's Andy Griffith's 21st Birthday. Not that he's counting. But his mother Carol is. Counting the minutes until he arrives, counting the unexpected guests, counting the times that this has happened before. Rory Kinnear's debut play is a witty and heartfelt look at a family falling apart and pulling together when life doesn't turn out quite the way they imagined.
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