Nourish the Beast

Nourish the Beast

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  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 5, 1974

Runtime

1h 30m

Original Title

Nourish the Beast

Production Companies

KCET, Broadway Theatre Archive

Director

Norman Lloyd

Description

Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she makes in a dirty old soup pan. In Queens she presides over a household comprised of a childish orphan who happens to be a cop, an elderly gentleman who explodes every time somebody calls him grandpa, a dying husband and an errant daughter who cries all night. The husband, Baba's fifth, is already submitting an ad for her sixth. The cop catches a Japanese stealing cameras and chains him to a radiator, the daughter guiltily confesses she voted for Nixon and runs off, and the husband-who may not die after all-insists they must wait out Watergate for a Democrat.