Though “Summer, 1976” has none of the explosive moments of some of its Broadway compadres, this play about female friendship has a gently moving power. Read TimTeeman's review:
Summer, 1976comes from two very clearly different women conveying their withering dismissiveness of the other—Diana is horrified that Alice is immersed in the bestselling novels of the time, like.” This barbed sniping session they impart to us; we are the confession booth where “square” meets “free spirit,” as Diana describes them.This structure means we hear what the women say to each other, and what they do not say to each other.
Don’t let the dress and ethereal air fool you; Alice is just as spiky as Diana, noting when the latter keeps taking puffs of a joint: “I only took it out because it was the only way I could imagine getting through the next ten minutes before I could make an excuse and leave.” Alice tells Diana she is a snob over thein peace because there's a James Michener book about Hawaii I'm dying to get to next.
Despite their differences, or maybe because of them, the women become closer—not in a syrupy way, but gently, and with an appreciation of their different lives and their echoing frustrations. The moment which cements their friendship comes when Alice takes care of Diana when the latter suffers from a debilitating migraine.
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