Desc: Twigs: Directed by Alan Arkin, Clark Jones. With Edward Asner, Conrad Bain, Gary Burghoff, Carol Burnett. Carol Burnett plays three middle-aged sisters and their grouchy mother in this comedy adaptation of George Furth's Broadway play. Each act focuses ona different woman and the men in their life. The characters include: a lonely widow; A frustrated housewife; A happy couple celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary; and Ma, the ailing matriarch, who insists that her husband remarry het ina Catholic ceremony..