How DO you juggle it all? Mothers tend to get asked that question — often in a chipper tone, expecting a chipper response. Rarely do those asking stick around to hear that perhaps those juggling balls are hovering precariously, about to crash to the ground.

One senses that Linda, the overburdened mom embodied by a brave and committed Rose Byrne in Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You , would freely expand on that — if anyone cared. But Linda is nobody’s priority.

She’s certainly not her husband’s priority; a cruise captain, he phones in from afar, checking that she’s properly caring for their ill child and freely admonishing her when she’s not. A working therapist, she’s certainly not the priority of her patients in various stages of crisis.

She’s also not the priority of docto

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