In Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ intensely plotted family drama “Last Night and the Night Before,” cracks between siblings, parents, children and partners become fractures, then fissures and, ultimately, abysses as deep and wide as the River Jordan. But as the chasms grow ever larger, so does the love binding those on opposite sides. So do the lengths they will travel to save each other.
Grays scripts those lengths into a journey that constantly demands the audience rethink what they believe is true about two very different sisters. As in all families, there are lies and betrayals and crucially missing information that shows up only in increments.
