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What We Did Before Our Moth Days

Wallace Shawn in What Did We Do With Our Moth Days?

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For some of us, Wallace Shawn is fondly remembered for his role on Gossip Girl, where he played the notorious Blair Waldorf’s stepfather and trademarked the line “not enough!” Funny and charming, his run on the show was, indeed, not enough. For anyone outside of Gen Z, Wallace’s defining work remains My Dinner With André, the 1981 film directed by my great-uncle Louis Malle and written by Shawn and André Gregory. Lifelong collaborators, Shawn and Gregory have reunited for What We Did Before Our Moth Days, a new play written by the former and directed by the latter. The intimate story of a middle-class family (mistress included), it’s also a meditation on love, sorrow, joy, and all of life’s ups and downs. —Jeanne Malle

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