Defying Gravity
Saturday Oct 5, 2019
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The play, loosely based on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, illuminates the hopes and dreams that fuel humanity's quest for the stars.
Defying Gravity, the opener of Mother Road's 12th season, is a beautifully impressionistic work by award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Jane Anderson (The Wife, Olive Kitteridge, Mad Men). The play, loosely based on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, illuminates the hopes and dreams that fuel humanity's quest for the stars.
Artfully folding space and time, it is able to parallel Claude Monet's artistic pursuits with the past of the Teacher, a character inspired by Christa McAuliffe, the first educator selected to be a civilian astronaut. The resulting journey is a wondrous transformation of a national tragedy.