A jigsaw puzzle of a play at the Kennedy Center
The characters in the wistful Brazilian play "O Jardim (The Garden)" occasionally refer to plants that have grown in the eponymous patch of greenery " a mango tree, a cherry tree that never produced fruit, flowers. But what primarily flourishes in this backyard oasis is memory, or so it seems as the play unspools, with three generations of a family recalling past occasions of happiness and (more often) loss. From the…