At least two of those appear on stage.
Weak, thin, tired, Lucy is comforted by her mother’s presence.
“I asked for stories,” she tells us.
Credit: Matthew Murphy
“I don’t know why.”
She starts this way: “Kathie Nicely.
Goodness she came to a bad end.”
She will enrage Lucy with casual revelations of envy.
She will also get angry herself, and put her sick daughter in her place.
And then she will go.
That both of these women are portrayed byLaura Linneyis the neat trick ofLucy Barton.
In an enthralling performance, Linney embodies both memoirist and memory.
Did Lucy’s mother even show up, or was she a hospital fever dream?
Linney’s delivery is seamless.
