Mother: "You what?" Daughter: "You know - jumping in the sandbox and pretending it's water.
Still, it's Grandma — played well, if a trifle too adorably, by Lois Markle — who is drawn with something like love in "The Sandbox" and in Albee's 1960 play "The American Dream," both of which are now being revived at the Cherry Lane under the playwright's beautifully self-aware direction.
Cons: He's like Bella's kid brother, or something -- they used to play in the sandbox together making mud-pies.
SARA: Sometimes, when I'm in the sandbox, I can feel myself sinking, like something is pulling me down.
WIFE: (scoffs) Shouts & Murmurs: "Sometimes, when I'm in the sandbox, I can feel myself sinking, like something is pulling me down".
But did you say dancing?" Shouts & Murmurs: "Sometimes, when I'm in the sandbox, I can feel myself sinking, like something is pulling me down".
With the idea of childhood looming large, the eclectic mix – of elements that do not typically work together but here formed something else entirely – tapped into the idea of wilful toddler playing in the sandbox.
Most of them were young, mathematically inclined boys who had played in the sandbox of baseball statistics and welcomed the idea of something more sophisticated.
A sneaker in the sandbox?
Suddenly everyone is playing in the sandbox".
