An Actress Known for Her Work on ‘Breaking Bad,’ Jessica Hecht Heads Up a New Adaptation of Brecht’s ‘A Mother’
Co-conceived by its playwright, Neena Beber, ‘A Mother,’ now being presented as part of Baryshnikov Arts’ 20th anniversary spring season, is obviously a very personal project for Hecht, who is especially beloved for her work onstage.
What do Bertolt Brecht, George Floyd, and the 1980 disco hit “Funkytown” have in common? All figure into “A Mother,” a new play adapted, very freely, from “The Mother,” Brecht’s account of a working-class widow who through her son’s activism is drawn into the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
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