It's a Sin To Tell a Lie: Two lonely strangers, an old man and an old woman, meet in their doctor's waiting room. They begin a casual conversation, and he is soon revealed as a would-be poet and she as a dreamer who fancies that she has had much more in life than is actually the case. But, as they tell ever more outrageous fibs to each other, the deeper truth of their essential loneliness emerges – and in a very touching way they "find" each other, and the friendship and concern of another human being which they both need so desperately. Circus Lady: A portrait of a tormented and desperate woman unable any longer to control her own destiny. The "Circus Lady" is a grossly fat, slatternly woman who has been reduced to living in squalor and on welfare while beset with fears that the rapist-killer who has terrorized the area is coming for her next. Her son, fed up with their slovenly existence, is about to go off to join a government training program; the welfare investigator wants to move her to a furnished room and arrange for psychiatric treatment; and her sister refuses to take her into her own home. Ultimately she confesses a long-buried family secret to her son. In the end she is alone, resigned to her fate, and tragically aware that this is of her own inevitable making. Lou Gehrig Did Not Die Of Cancer: A play that explores the meeting of two "losers," who find a chord of understanding growing subtly but surely between them.

It's a sin to tell a lie --Circus lady -- Lou Gehrig did not die of cancer.