Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht Deliver Haunting Friendship in 'Summer, 1976' on Broadway
TL;DR
"Summer, 1976" is a bittersweet, comic memory play about two mothers who make a life-altering connection during a play date. Laura Linney plays the austere, censorious Diana to Jessica Hecht's vastly chiller Alice. The play is subtly, insistently feminist and more than the wisp of a two-hander that it might first appear to be. The two women are a gorgeous duo, bickering lifelines for each other, vulnerable and too proud. The play is a story of profound connection and awakening disquiet, which director Daniel Sullivan directs with his customary unostentatious lucidity.
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