Summer, 1976
by David Auburn

Name: Summer, 1976
Brand: David Auburn
SKU: 9780573710810
Rating: 3.53 (11 reviews)

Broadway

Summer, 1976 Book Cover — Summer, 1976 Cover

Highlights

Female

90 mins Present Day Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

A deeply moving, tenderly insightful play about friendship, memory, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives forever.

Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife.

As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.

Press Reviews

"Critic's Pick! “[A] bittersweet, comic memory play... a story of profound connection and awakening disquiet... sharply observant, too, and subtly, insistently feminist."
— Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times

"Sensitive... a warm and beguiling memory play... The closer you look, and listen, and the more you reflect upon it, the deeper grow its rewards."
— The Wall Street Journal

"Potently affirming... the story’s modesty allows emotion and meaning to suddenly sneak up on you."
— New York Post

"Quietly poignant... captures an experience that’s as universal as it is inexplicable: a friendship that shouldn’t work but does, and that should endure but doesn’t."
— Deadline

"The story that unspools is refreshingly small and intimate... Summer, 1976 highlights how simpler moments and interactions along one's timeline can still have a profound and long-lasting impact — much like the play itself."
— Entertainment Weekly