‘IF I FORGET’ - POWERFULLY RESONANT DRAMA

Intensely familiar themes roar through Steven Levenson’s gripping 2017 play, “If I Forget,” which opened Friday in its Chicago premiere at Victory Gardens Theater. Levenson, the Tony Award-winning writer of “Dear Evan Hansen,” has breathed life into a stark family drama that examines the enormous personal and psychological challenges of aging and memory, grief and survivor’s syndrome, and coping with siblings and in-laws whose actions and disparate points of view—political and otherwise—cause irreparable harm.