14-200 - Laurie Jameson (Maureen Anderman, l.) welcomes her daughter Emily (Halley Feiffer) home from college in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, running Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre. Photo: T Charles Erickson.

30-200 - Jack Jameson (Jonathan McMurtry, l.) tried to assert his authority, despite his battle with Alzheimer's disease as granddaughter Emily (Halley Feiffer) looks on in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, running Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre. Photo: T Charles Erickson.

36-200 - Nancy Gordon (Robin Pearson Rose, l.) describes the change in her outlook on life to best friend Laurie Jameson (Maureen Anderman) in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, running Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre. Photo: T Charles Erickson.

63-200 - Freshman student Woodson Bull III, or Third (Graham Hamilton, r.) tries to convince professor Laurie Jameson (Maureen Anderman) that he didn't plagiarize his paper on King Lear in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, running Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre. Photo: T Charles Erickson.

102-200 - Emily (Halley Feiffer, l.) defends her mother's stellar academic career to Woodson Bull III (Graham Hamilton) in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, running Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre. Photo: T Charles Erickson.

120-200 - Woodson Bull III (Graham Hamilton) addresses the student body of his idyllic New England college in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, running Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre. Photo: T Charles Erickson.

149-200 - After she finds him lost and disoriented, Laurie Jameson (Maureen Anderman, r.) make peace with her ailing father Jack (Jonathan McMurtry) in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, running Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre. Photo: T Charles Erickson.

84-200 — Laurie Jameson (Maureen Anderman) daydreams about overturning the traditional power structure in the middle of an Academic Committee hearing in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, running Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington’s main stage, the Boston University Theatre.  Photo: T Charles Erickson

Maureen Anderman as Laurie Jameson in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, playing Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre.  Photo: Eric Antoniou

Graham Hamilton as Woodson Bull III in the in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, playing Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre.  Photo: Eric Antoniou

Maureen Anderman and Graham Hamilton in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, playing Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre.  Photo: Eric Antoniou

The Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, playing Jan. 4-Feb. 3 at the Huntington's main stage, the Boston University Theatre.