as an industry or a major employer leaves or a new initiative surfaces. Reading the story at home, Kaczmarek thought of towns she has seen change over the years - North Adams, or New Haven, Conn.
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"We drove the wide, empty streets," Bender writes: "We looked out the windows at the parking lots, we ate, slept, swept the floors, tried not to buy things, talked, ignored each other, waited." The narrator's family feel uprooted in a place that could be anywhere. "People get jobs in retail or stay home." "I was thinking, what would I do?" she said. She misses the feeling that she can walk into a department store with her kids and get them something small, a DVD, Kaczmarek said. The narrator swelters in the exhaustion and confusion of losing structure and a sense of purpose - a sense that she was doing something of use. The story follows a middle-class family trying about making ends meet, a familiar tension after 2008. She first read "Free Lunch" in her book group in Pasadena, Calif., she said in a phone interview during her last week of WTF performances.
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At the Mahaiwe, Leonard will perform "Liliana" by Maile Meloy, in which a struggling family in Los Angeles gets a visit from a relative they thought was dead.Ĭurtin will return with "Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People" by Lorrie Moore: Faced by a daunting change at work, a young woman takes her mother on a trip to Ireland.Īnd Kaczmarek will present "Free Lunch" the day after she finishes her run of "And No More Shall We Part" with Alfred Molina at Williamstown Theatre Festival. All three actors have often brought short stories to life on tour and on the national radio program on Public Radio International (PRI).