Saturday, March 23, 2013

Constellations (MTC)

He's a beekeeper, she does something that involves quantum mechanics and a pop-science structural-expository lecture(s) on parallel universes, and the play makes much of the existential metaphors offered by those vocations; in that respect, reminded me much of Wild Surmise. The characters seemed like real people - impressive, given that they were performing essentially multiple possible versions of themselves in a series of repeated and chopped-up, varying fragments. But overall it felt just a bit slight; hard to know how much of that was the play itself and how much the production. Either way, while it was peppy enough and did a decent job with the central conceit of portraying those branching alternate paths, consecutively and otherwise, this one didn't quite hit the mark for me.

(w/ Cass)