VRTs Season Finale Summer, 1976
Vashon Center for the Arts
May 1, 7:30
May 2, 7:30
May 3, 2 & 7:30
May 4, 2pm

Vashon Rep Produces West Coast Premiere

Vashon Repertory Theatre, the little company that could, will close its fabulous Fifth Season with the West Coast premiere of Summer, 1976, a play by Pulitzer prize and Tony award winning playwright, David Auburn.

The play opens Friday, May 4, with the first of four performances at the Vashon Center for the Arts (19600 Vashon Hwy SW Vashon, WA 98070). A talkback with Mr. Auburn will follow the Sunday, May 4, matinee in the Center’s modern Kay White Auditorium.

David Auburn brings his usual subtlety and nuance to this tale of friendship formed between two neighbors in Columbus, Ohio, whose daughters love playing together. 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 this 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 navigate motherhood, ambition and intimacy and help each other discover their own independence. It is an intimate portrayal of blossoming friendship.

Regarding how he developed intimate dialogue for two women, Auburn says, “I try to imagine them as fully as I can, think carefully about their intentions and desires, and see where the writing takes me.”

With a few comic surprises, the plot twists around Auburn’s delicate insight into the unexpected ways friendships evolve, and the ways in which can friends grow apart.

Tickets are available now at https://www.vashonrepertorytheatre.org/