The script for Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road” indicates that the play takes place at “a couch in a void.” As the lights come up, we see it — a white leather monstrosity with separate recliners built in — and we see, too, the void. The stage is utterly bare otherwise.
The play takes ample metaphorical advantage of both couch and void. In staging the collision of a reluctant aunt (Laurie Metcalf) and her stymied-by-life nephew (Micah Stock) during the early days of COVID, Hunter’s script situates itself within a historical moment when couch-sitting was all many people had. As for the void? Well, those familiar with
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