Sublime, heartbreaking, funny, and fiercely intelligent” – Broadway World
East Coast Premiere! Prudence “Pru” Payne is a contemporary Dorothy Parker: a sharp-tongued intellectual and critic who recently signed on to share her extraordinary life in an eagerly-awaited autobiography. But when Pru’s memory starts to fade, her son sets her up in a state-of-the-art care facility, where love takes hold just as the world she once knew begins to slip away. With wit, verve, and above all, heart, Pulitzer Prize nominee Steven Drukman explores questions of memory, identity, and connection.
Sublime, heartbreaking, funny, and fiercely intelligent” – Broadway World
East Coast Premiere! Prudence “Pru” Payne is a contemporary Dorothy Parker: a sharp-tongued intellectual and critic who recently signed on to share her extraordinary life in an eagerly-awaited autobiography. But when Pru’s memory starts to fade, her son sets her up in a state-of-the-art care facility, where love takes hold just as the world she once knew begins to slip away. With wit, verve, and above all, heart, Pulitzer Prize nominee Steven Drukman explores questions of memory, identity, and connection.
Duration
1 hour 40 minutes with no intermission
SIGNIFICANT DATES
- Post Show Conversations: Sun. 10/27 at 3pm, Th. 11/14 at 2pm
- Relaxed Performance: Sun. 11/10 at 3 pm
- Open Captioning: Sat. 11/2 at 7:30 pm, Sun. 11/3 at 3 pm
- Audio Description: Fri. 11/8 at 7:30 pm, Sat. 11/16 at 2 pm
CONTENT ADVISORY
Some strong language.
Mentions of suicide.
Recommended for Ages 12+
Presented By:
Speakeasy Stage Company
SpeakEasy Stage is a non-profit theatre company located in the South End of Boston. Led by award-winning Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault, we produce 28 weeks of new plays and musicals each season at the Nancy and Ed Roberts Studio Theater in the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.
Calderwood Pavilion/BCA, 527 Tremont St
The Calderwood Pavilion contains the Wimberly Theatre, the Roberts Studio Theatre, the Carol G. Deane Hall, and the Nicholas Martin Hall. You should navigate to the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA if you are seeing a show in any of those aforementioned spaces.
Directions and parking for the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
