Laura Linney pours the breath of life into Broadway’s My Name Is Lucy Barton, based on the novel by Olive Kitteridge author Elizabeth Strout. Arriving in New York following an acclaimed Londo…
author Elizabeth Strout. Arriving in New York following an acclaimed London production, this poignant, 90-minute solo play, directed by Richard Eyre and opening tonight at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, conjures up an entire life – or two or three – through the sometimes fuzzy, always penetrating memories of a middle-aged woman still coming to terms with a childhood few would wish to recall.
Later came the appendix operation gone bad, isolating Lucy in a New York City hospital room as confining as the locked pickup truck her parents used as punishment for crying. As if those memories weren’t enough, Mother arrives, the traumatic past made flesh.s Joe Pitt , Lucy’s mom just sorta brings the hardscrabble Midwest with her.
With all this history lurking unsaid in that hospital room, perhaps it’s no wonder Lucy can’t find the emotional space to share more recent memories with her mother – about her marriage, her daughters, the treasured gay neighbor who will soon die of AIDS, life in 1980s New York. Still, Linney is so adept at evoking a person’s inner world that she never once loses our focus. Her Lucy has a world of happiness and hurt just waiting for an introduction to Mother, but that’s an introduction that never arrives.
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