What I Did Last Summer

Retro Productions presents A. R. Gurney’s coming-of-age story, What I Did Last Summer which looks at life on the home front during the waning days of World War II. In the summer of 1945, while his father is stationed in the Pacific, 14 year-old Charlie and his family head to their summer home in an effort to keep some normalcy in their lives. While there, Charlie rebels against his mother and finds himself under the tutelage of “the Pig Woman,” the town misfit, who tries to help him find his potential while pointing out the foibles of upper middle class society, of which they are all products. However, society does not give up one of its own without a fight – as more than one person finds out. This is the first production of the play in New York City since its premiere here in 1983. Ric Sechrest directs.