WELL, I'LL LET YOU GO

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Quincy Tyler Bernstine, one of the finest actors of her generation, is the heart and soul of Bubba Weiler’s transcendent new drama Well, I’ll Let You Go. Weiler’s play recalls Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in significant ways: the small-town setting, the all-knowing narrator, the conversational dialogue, the simple staging with metal folding chairs and card tables representing a whole host of furniture, with the audience lined up in two rows on each side of the runway-like stage area. (Set design by Frank J. Oliva.) The two shows also share a plainspoken attempt to come to terms with life’s bigger, deeper questions. Do we every really know those closest to us? How do we honor the memory of those we’ve lost? And how do we find a path forward when death intrudes?