I’ve seen Chloë Grace Moretz on screen for the better part of both her life and mine, we being around the same age. After her breakout role in the 2010 film Kick-Ass , she made her stage debut at 17 with Scott Z. Burns’s The Library —a 2014 production at the Public Theater about a school shooting, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Now, more than 10 years later, she stars in the world premiere of Caroline , a new one-act by Preston Max Allen, directed by David Cromer , at the MCC Theater.

Caroline , a thorny depiction of filial love in all its iterations, centers on Maddie (Moretz), a heavily tattooed young single mother raising her trans daughter, Caroline (River Lipe-Smith). Maddie isn’t the perfect mom; she has struggled with addiction and often speaks before thinking, but she l

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