'night Mother Author:Marsha Norman In 'night, Mother the most prominent clock on the wall (the set has three) is a spidery starburst that silently ticks down to the final, terror-stricken moments in Marsha Norman's devastating play, with is told in just under 90 minutes. What happens within that sort passage of time is a drama of such compact eloquence that it's impossible not t... more »o be drawn into the center of the play's pain and defeat. Marsha Norman is writing here about a young woman who 'looks out at the world and sees: Not Fair.' Disappointed in herself, in the woman she has become, she methodically plans her suicide. and achieves it. --The Boston Globe« less