The Cosmonaut’s Last Message

Scottish playwright David Greig’s mesmerizing tone poem on the limits of communication traces the web that connects such diverse characters as a Scottish civil servant and his wife, a Norwegian diplomat, a Russian exotic dancer, a French UFO researcher and a pregnant detective to two cosmonauts orbiting endlessly above them. The cosmonauts themselves are forgotten by a Soviet Union that no longer exists and are struggling against an isolation that seems inescapable. Stefan Novinski directs for the Open Fist Theatre Company.