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I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn’t Even Smile Set to Begin

Suzanne Heathcote’s show makes its world premiere at Berkshire Theatre Group tonight.

Keira Naughton performs as Rebecca in Suzanne Heathcote's play I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile, which begins tonight.
Keira Naughton plays Rebecca in Suzanne Heathcote's play I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile.
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Berkshire Theatre Group's I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile begins its run tonight at the Unicorn Theatre. The show revolves around Rebecca, a woman living the same mundane routine every day. She wakes up, eats a sensible breakfast, bundles up, drives to the train, goes to her bookkeeping job, waits to go home, cooks dinner for her domineering mother, watches TV, and goes to bed still grieving for her dead dog. Everything threatens to remain numbingly consistent until her underachieving brother begs for Rebecca to take in her troubled niece. Rebecca, true to form, doesn’t resist. In the ensuing month, the three generations of very different, but all damaged women, try to keep the cold away.

Jackson Gay directs Suzanne Heathcote’s play, which features Keira Naughton as Rebecca, Linda Gehringer as Daphne, Andrew Rothenberg as Jamie, Adam O’Byrne as Paul, Kathryn Gallagher as Sadie, and Adam Langdon as Eric.

"Suzanne’s wonderful play is full of funny and flawed people," says director Jackson Gay. "She perfectly captures the utter loneliness of modern existence with humor and heart and reminds us that sometimes you just have to look at the person standing right next to you to find what you’ve been looking for all along."

The creative team includes Paul Whitaker (set design and lighting design), Jessica Ford (costume design), Nicholas Hussong (projections), and Broken Chord (sound design).

Performances will run through August 15.

For tickets and more information, click here.

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