VIDEO: OUR MOTHER'S BRIEF AFFAIR'S Linda Lavin Talks Of What Children Don't Suspect

"I wanted to speak for all those women who have not been identified as women aside from being mothers," Linda Lavin explains when asked what drew her to Richard Greenberg's OUR MOTHER'S BRIEF AFFAIR.

In Manhattan Theatre Club's premiere production, Lavin plays Anna, a woman who may be forgetting more than she remembers when she shocks her now-adult children with the details of an affair she had when they were kids.

"People have identified and have come up and said 'That's my mother'," she notes to NBC's New York Live.

The limited engagement of OUR MOTHER'S BRIEF AFFAIR began previews December 28 and opened January 20 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

Joining the Tony and two-time Golden Globe Award winner Lavin are Kate Arrington (Grace, The Qualms), Greg Keller (Of Good Stock at MTC, Belleville), and John Procaccino (An Enemy of the People at MTC, Incident at Vichy).