Night Sky
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Opened Jun 2, 2009
Closed Jun 20, 2009
Opened Jun 2, 2009
Closed Jun 20, 2009
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Night Sky explores what the noted author and physicist Steven Hawking has called the two remaining mysteries -- the brain and the cosmos -- as the play looks at what happens to a bright, articulate astronomer, her family and her career when she is struck by a car and loses her ability to speak conventionally, a condition known as "aphasia." As she is left to expresses herself in an alternately funny, poetic, confusing and profound hodge-podge of words, astronomer Anna, her daughter, fiancé and colleagues face uncommon challenges of the mind and spirit as they discover new ways to communicate, and what it really means to listen.
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RE:Night Sky-great theater expeience
Night Sky is very well written. Although the topic of "aphasia" may be unfamiliar to many, the author presents the topic in an understandable way for the layman. In this play we see how recovery from aphasia effects the total family dynamic.
The acting in Night Sky was excellent by all cast members. I found this play to be compelling, informative, and very interesting. If you would like to see theater that will make you think, rush to see Night Sky.
Reviewed by Pegasus3
on Sunday, Jun 7th, 2009
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There are so many direct and metaphorically indirect references to interior and exterior space in Susan Yankowitz's Night Sky, now premiering at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, that even the ties worn by one character serve as reminders of the heady subject matter: aphasia. Yes, one cravat that costumer Katherine Roth has supplied features a blazing-constellation pattern, another has a field of what look to be aligned planets, and a third boasts a field of shooting stars. But no amount of myriad verbal and visual inclusions can make this well-meaning work better than it actually is.
Without question, Yankowitz taps into several deeply touching moments as she relates the plight th[...]