Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: There are many gems, but none come to mind at the start of "Little Gem," Elaine Murphy's three-person play from Ireland, now at City Theatre. The lives led by this daughter, mother and grandmother, as we soon learn they are, have nothing gem-like about them -- not even emerald green.
Amber, up first, is a resentful, tightly wound teenager, talking of a night of drinking in obscenity-laced language, at least to the extent that you can understand her slang-ridden North Dublin talk at all. Lorraine, her mother, may be in trouble in her job as a shop clerk. And Kay, Lorraine's mother, is caring for a dying husband and imagining how she might fill a void and scratch an itch.
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