Miss You Like Hell
The song says Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have. That is the theme, I’ll say, of Miss You Like Hell by Strawberry Theatre Worksop . It’s a mother-daughter roadtrip across America to a reckoning. They aren’t heading for Oz, instead it’s Immigration Court. Mom, Beatriz (Maggie Corrido) rolls in from California in a Nissan pickup like a whirlwind to estranged daughter Olivia’s (Stephanie Roman) apartment building in Philadelphia. It’s maybe Beatriz’s last shot at a relationship with her daughter, and her last chance to remain in the United States, if only Olivia will drive with her back to California to testify at the deportation hearing. It’s a sort of last chance for Olivia, too, in a couple of ways. So off they go. There are colorful characters on the road. A biker couple on a quest to get married in all 50 states. A sad tamale salesman. A Yellowstone Park Ranger. A callous court clerk. A Wisconsin State Police officer. An earnest immigration attorney