“I kept thinking how [we] had a really unhealthy family,” writes Elizabeth Strout in her 2016 novel, My Name is Lucy Barton, “but I saw then too how our roots were twisted so tenaciously around one another’s hearts.” The Son, the final installment in a tenaciously twisting family trilogy by Tony Award-winner Florian Zeller (The Mother came first in 2010, then The Father in 2012), is about a teenager named Nicholas, who is suffering the twin effects of divorce and creeping depression. The result is a spot-on, emotional production from a talent the Times of London has called “the most exciting playwright of our time.” —J.V.
The Son
Duke of York's Theatre
St Martin's Ln, Charing Cross, London WC2N 4BG, United Kingdom
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