by Kilian Melloy

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s season continues with KJ Moran Velz’s new play Mother Mary, a story set in 1968 that finds two women — cab driver Jo Cruz and Catholic schoolteacher Mary O’Sullivan — navigating not just the streets of Southie, but also the perils of the time and the eternal mysteries of love. What starts as a ride home turns into a shared daily ritual of commuting and discussing books like The Price of Salt. Jo’s uncertainties and Mary’s innocence are roadblocks on the road to romance, but so too are the insults hurled by community members who can see plainly that Jo likes women… something that Mary, catching onto, finds herself intrigued by. There’s a complication in that Mary is pregnant thanks to her boyfriend (also Catholic, but deployed to Vietnam), but that might just be something Jo happens to be able to help with…

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