Directed by Marja Lewis- Ryan
with Felicity Huffman and Rebecca Pidgeon
In the play's Los Angeles premiere, the audience is almost in the lap of Pidgeon and Huffman as they take their places in a cramped, institutional office — designer Michael Fitzgerald’s convincing set includes a desk, two chairs, wooden and concrete walls, and glass panes looking out onto more concrete. It is a sometime place of business for parole board member Ann (Pidgeon), who is to decide if Cathy (Huffman), a Weather Underground-like radical incarcerated for killing a cop in a robbery, should be released after serving 35 years.