Nevis Mountain Dew explores the subject of euthanasia involving the patriarch of an affluent family who is confined to an iron lung.
Set in the Queens borough of New York City in 1954, a Caribbean-American family gathers to celebrate the 50th birthday of Jared Philibert, who is confined to an iron lung due to paralysis.
Ayton, Jared's best friend, arrives at the party with a bottle of rum called "Nevis Mountain Dew."
[1] Nevis Mountain Dew is loosely based on the experience of a patient that the playwright encountered while working in a hospital.
as polemically as its British counterpart, but it takes a similar stand and a closer look at the effects of such a prolongued [sic] calamity on those surrounding the victim.