THE WAY WEST-Not Worth Wasting Your Time or $ at Labyrinth Theater

I detested this annoyingly misguided show.  It is an aggraviting waste of time.  Set in contemporary CA, this is a long winded story about a mentally unstable mother,  of 2 grown daughters who is financially strapped with a loose grasp on reality.  Family dysfunction and financial crisis can be fodder for drama but this black comedy is without levity, sanity or credibility.  Mom has gone through the last of her $13,000 savings as a gullible rube in a shady scam.  Older, wiser, departed daughter Manda has returned from Chicago as a grant writer (how ironic) to help sort her mother's health & money crisis.  Younger, wilder & ruthless daughter Meesh is a mess who only exacerbates her mother's money woes and Manda's wrath.  The only reprieve and light (other than the house fire) come from the vistas out the 2 large pane windows showing shimmering rays of colorful sunsets.  My interest in this play by Mona Mansour (her previous plays were commissioned by NY Public Theater) died soon after the show started.  Mom's monologues about westerner's resourcefulness & perseverance wears thin. Motivational cliches of  nothing ventured nothing gained are wan.  There were multiple missed opportunities for telling worthy tales from financial crisis fallouts.  The value to seeing this show is irredeemable.  Stay away from this dreadful play which runs low on entertainment and peters on far too long.