Prepare the apples: Into a bowl, peel, core and slice a few apple slices, stir and cover well with the flour & sugar mixture as you go.Make flour & sugar mix: In a bowl, stir ingredients together until all one color (beige) and set aside.Make the crumb topping: In a bowl, mash butter, flour, brown sugar and cinnamon together to resemble crumbs and then set aside.Transfer the pie crust from the tinfoil pan to the CENTER of a 10-inch glass pie dish.8 cups peeled and cored apples each cut into 6 slices (6-8 small apples).1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (spread it around).9-inch store-bought frozen deep-dish pie crust."In one half hour, you will have the most delectable apple pie your tongue has ever experienced." - playwright Lawrence Thelen Perfectly sweetened, just enough cinnamon, and a good story to go with it. It’s a good thing that this production answers with a loving comedy of the most primal of relationships, a mother and daughter: Laugh, enjoy, and have a piece of pie!”Īnd guess what? When the play is over, they serve that fragrant pie to the audience!Ĭlassic Apple Pie with Streusel Topping.
What is our legacy? What can we leave for the ones we love that will have true meaning in their lives? How can we be the people we always hoped we’d have the courage and wisdom to be? Will we leave anything better than it was before? It is a life quandary and moral quandary most of us won’t escape. When we get to our third act in life, the finish looms with more meaning, significance and purpose. Let’s listen as artistic director Tom Ormeny takes us behind the scenes: “Our play is a theatrical haiku - one location, real time, real event of something that is made from scratch, the pie. The set is a real kitchen with a working stove, oven and sink, and as the play’s end nears, the smell of apples and cinnamon wafting throughout the theater is intoxicating. So are old family secrets, relationships and surprising events. …and the apple pie secret (cooking the apples in a skillet before settling them in the crust) is revealed. …the crust pressed into a larger pan so it is thinner, each step in the recipe prepared ahead of time and set aside (why? because she said so!)… This mother and daughter can drive each other crazy (sound familiar to you?), as mama (K Callan, in the blue below) instructs Dory (Laurie O’Brien) in the exacting art of pie-making. I am calling it Apple Pie with Streusel Topping, because the streusel plays such an important role.
During the course of their 90-minute early-morning kitchen conversation that constitutes the play, they bake an actual pie - they call it Mama’s Apple Pie. It’s a wonderful, simple, small play about the relationship between an 85-year-old mother and her 65-year-old daughter. I did last weekend, and it’s a great one! I went to see the world premiere of a comedy called “ Pie in the Sky,” by Lawrence Thelan, at the Victory Theatre in Burbank, California. Have you ever gotten a recipe from going to the theater?
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