What We Did Before Our Moth Days

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About the Show

Wallace Shawn’s play traces a family’s tangled loves, regrets, and private confessions.

In this play by Wallace Shawn, a father, mother, son, and the father’s long-time mistress recount the intimate details of their lives. Known for his unflinching explorations of politics and sexuality, Shawn here turns to the subject of love—its constraints, its liberations, and the shifting emotions it provokes, from remorse and sorrow to resentment and joy.

Developed with director André Gregory, the work blends strangeness and humor in the vein of their earlier collaboration, My Dinner with André.

Critic Reviews (8)

"At the very least, there’s a purgative effect here, in which venting the energies from a sordid guilt offers catharsis."
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“Complex and sometimes ugly feelings are rendered with precision and wit.”
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"What renders it profoundly theatrical is its obsession, as deep as Hamlet’s, with the treachery of surfaces, still or otherwise."
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"The static format becomes an increasing liability as the minutes tick by, because the characters, their reflections and their relationships are not particularly novel or arresting"
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"Moth Days is a bracingly clear-eyed examination of life choices, and the psychic legacy one person leaves long after they’ve returned to dust."
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"A rueful story rendered in some 30 monologues and one conversation late in its third act (and third hour), What We Did Before Our Moth Days presents a gloomy study in extremely first world existential worries"
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"The whole thing is austere and static, but it’s not inert. The storytelling is measured and considered, but it’s far from emotionless."
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John Early, best known for his stand-up and comedic acting in shows like ‘Search Party,’ makes the strongest impression, issuing quirky opinions with disarming forthrightness,
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