These two women are at the top of their games and make this production seem effortless. Here intimacy and distance is woven throughout the past into the present as we are asked to examine the nature of friendship, the truth, the fantasy, the wants and the failures of moving in different directions. There is nobody who will not be able to relate to this drama.ĭaniel Sullivan’s direction is clear, clean and precise, allowing Linney and Hecht, to give us a master class in acting. From dislike to camaraderie, to a heartache that changes both their loves, to moving on and leaving it behind. Summer, 1976 introduces us to two very different women telling and reliving their friendship. A shared reefer, bonds them as does a health crisis and a martial breakdown. The two meet through their five-year-old daughters, who have bonded. She is a faculty parent on a tight budget. She is liberated, yet is married to the conventional. She is married to an economics professor who is up for tenure. Jessica Hecht is a hippy who dropped out of college to become a mother and a wife. Jessica Hecht, Laura Linney Photo by Jeremy Daniel
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