"Ruby (Aimee Doherty), has recently arrived and describes losing track of her husband in a drunken fog at the beach the night before, but she's not worried about if or when he'll turn up. Gloria (Amanda Kristin Nichols) arrives in a torrent of anger, slapping and kicking her teenage children, who are punching and wrestling each other. She promptly tells her long-suffering husband Bill (Mike Masters) to go take a walk somewhere. The year is 1976."
"In the Berkeley Rep production which opened Wednesday, the towering set by Andrew Boyce and Se Hyun Oh spins on a turntable to reveal, on the opposite side of the "public parlor" and staircase, the kitchen and private parlor of the Webbs' home, where it is suddenly 1956. We meet Veronica (Allison Jean White) as she once was, a slender, imposing figure in heels, directing her girls in rehearsal before dinner."
The Webb sisters gather at Seaview, a Blackpool guest house, in 1976 to await the death of their hard-driving stage mother, Veronica. Jill tends the dying mother after years of caregiving; Ruby arrives distraught but oddly unconcerned about her missing husband; Gloria bursts in furious, berating her children and husband. Joan, the estranged eldest, is delayed flying from California. The towering set rotates to reveal a 1956 interior where Veronica appears in her prime directing the girls' rehearsals. Present tensions unravel alongside enacted memories of the sisters' youth and Veronica's forceful ambition.
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