A mother and daughter reunion — or not

[...] the mother is holed up in an abandoned motel, trusting a complete stranger to deprogram the young woman in a new thriller by noted playwright Steven Dietz (“God’s Country,” “Lonely Planet,” “Halcyon Days”).

San Francisco Playhouse moves up — not quite to the roof but just below it, to the top-floor Rueff stage at American Conservatory Theater’s Strand Theater — for the latest offering in its Sandbox Series.

Susi Damilano directs the third of three National New Play Network “rolling world premiere” productions, following one in West Virginia and overlapping with a staging in Indiana.