Press - Our Mother's Brief Affair

OUR MOTHER'S BRIEF AFFAIR
by Richard Greenberg
directed by Pam McKinnon
April 3 - May 3, 2009
Segerstrom Stage

Adult siblings Seth and Abby have reunited to tend to their elderly mother, Anna, who has the habit of playing out periodic deathbed scenes for her children. But this time something is different. This time Anna has a story to tell, about long-ago Saturday afternoons, about escorting young Seth to his viola lessons at Juilliard despite his constant protestations…and about what she did while he played scales. A love affair made out of weekly matinees at a small hotel, with a man whose name is synonymous with betrayal.

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(l. to r.) Matthew Arkin, Jenny O'Hara, Marin Hinkle and Arye Gross in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.		(l. to r.) Jenny O'Hara, Arye Gross and Marin Hinkle in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Arye Gross and Marin Hinkle in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.		Arye Gross and Jenny O'Hara in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Arye Gross, background, Jenny O'Hara and Matthew Arkin in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.		Arye Gross and Marin Hinkle in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.		Arye Gross and Jenny O'Hara in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Jenny O'Hara in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.		Arye Gros in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.		Matthew Arkin in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Matthew Arkin and Jenny O'Hara in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.		Marin Hinkle in the World Premiere of Our Mother's Brief Affair by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, April 3 - May 3 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Richard Greenberg. Photo by Mark Avery/SCR