McCartney Times

Memory plays tricks. Years later, we remember with perfect clarity what the wallpaper looked like or the curve of someone’s smile, but forget what was actually done or said in the room.

“Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?,” now being staged by Forward Theater Company and directed by Baron Kelly in the Overture Center Playhouse, is a memory play, a term coined by Tennessee Williams to describe a play in which the main character recounts events from their past.

But this is an honest memory play. Those hoping for tidy anecdotes, perceptive character sketches and “After that, nothing was ever the same” epiphanies will be frustrated. Instead, Adrienne Kennedy (who wrote the play with her son Adam Kennedy) tells her story in a truthful, stream-of-consciousness style, with wit and verve and vulnerability. “I was in a daze,” she says at several points throughout the show, and at times it seems as if she’s recounting a dream she had, pleasant and strange.

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