The Grief of Others

The story

The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways. But as the family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt, humor, warmth, and burdens of others—to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.

Cast

W Wendy MonizRicky Ryrie T Trevor St. JohnJohn Ryrie O Oona LaurenceBiscuit Ryrie J Jeremy ShinderPaul Ryrie S Sonya HarumJessica Safransky M Mike FaistGordie Joiner R Rachel DratchMadeleine Berkowitz J Jo MeiSalesperson J Jessica PimentelMs. Nuñez J Juliet Adair PritnerRadiologist H Henry GagliardiYoung Paul Ryrie