Between Riverside And Crazy

Guirgis has been quoted as saying that “[a]ll my plays […] are meditations about trying to put away my childish things.” What do you think he means by the phrase “childish things”? In Between Riverside and Crazy, what “childish things” might he specifically be trying to put away, based on the biographical details mentioned in the Plot Overview? 

Imagine yourself as the set designer for a production of Between Riverside and Crazy. Identify five architectural or decorative features of Pops’s apartment that you feel must be visible to the audience and explain your choices with evidence from the text. 

How might a director choose to memorialize Pops’s wife in a production of the play? Consider such decisions as props, flashbacks, tone of voice, and anything else that might communicate something to the audience of the relationship between Pops and his wife.