TONIGHT (Tuesday) 7:30-9:00
and BY ARRANGEMENT
during the coming week and weekend.
Please email the director, Ruth Anne Baumgartner, at
ruthanneb@mindspring.com
to make arrangements to audition.
Location:
Westport Community Theatre
Westport Town Hall
110 Myrtle Avenue
Westport, CT 06880
Details:
Our Mother's Brief Affair
by Richard Greenberg
Directed by
Ruth Anne Baumgartner
Production dates are February 7 – 23, 2020:
Fridays and Saturdays @ 8:00 pm, Sundays @ 2:00 pm
Thursday, February 13 @ 8:00 pm
preview with audience Thursday, February 6 @ 8:00 pm
Playwright Richard Greenberg is the author of Take Me Out, The Dazzle, The American Plan, Life Under Water, The Author’s Voice, and an adaptation of August Strindberg’s Dance of Death.
On the verge of death (again), Anna makes a shocking confession to her grown children: an affair from her past that just might have resonance beyond the family. But how much of what she says, particularly now that she’s showing signs of Alzheimer’s, is true? While her children try to separate fact from fiction during their visits to her, Anna fights to prove her life has had significance. Our Mother’s Brief Affair considers the sweeping, surprising impact of indiscretions both large and small. The play is a sort of everyday detective story with connections to real history. Flowing between an historical “then” and “now,” it considers how little we know about the lives that impinge upon and shape our own. New York Times called the writing in this script “elegant and keenly epigrammatic.”
The play takes place in locales in New York City and Long Island.
The characters (2M and 2F) move between 2003, when the play is set, and various earlier times in their lives.
Seeking (ages approximate):
ANNA: (60s) the aging mother, described by herself and other characters as “cold” but with a secret that suggests quite other dimensions
SETH and ABBY: (mid 30s) her twin children, now adults with lives of their own
Anna’s LOVER (50s-60s), known by several names,
ABE (50s-60s): Anna’s husband. He has only one scene; the playwright assigns the roles of Lover and Abe to one actor.
The play moves fluidly between presentational scenes and dialogue; the set is abstract and includes a number of settings. Given the nature of script, characters, and set, the Director hopes that auditioners will be actors who like a challenge.
Critical acclaim: “OUR MOTHER'S BRIEF AFFAIR is the sort of everyday detective story in which the prolific Mr. Greenberg has long specialized…he juxtaposes a generational then and now to consider how little we know about the lives that impinge upon and shape our own…[It] provides an uncannily perceptive portrait of colliding reminiscences.” —NY Times. “Greenberg’s writing is elegant and keenly epigrammatic, and the identity he assigns to Anna’s lover at the end of Act I is a first-class punch line: a historical left hook…” —Time Out NY. “Richard Greenberg always amazes with his precise selection of words and images…” —The Observer.
For more information, please contact the director,
ruthanneb@mindspring.com
Westport Community Theatre
Westport Town Hall – 110 Myrtle Avenue
Westport, CT 06880
Box Office (203) 226-1983
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