Event

Words and Music

MSA Theatre presents:

Words & Music
May 3 and 4, 2018 7:00 pm Performing Arts Center, Novato High School

*CONTAINS SOME ADULT LANGUAGE AND CONTENT*

Two different evenings featuring MSA Theatre students' work from this year, including: monologues, sonnets, songs, a dance, and a few scenes. Each evening will also include a one act version of Jane Anderson's beautiful play, DEFYING GRAVITY. The play is a poignant and heart-warming look that uses the Challenger disaster as a common thread.

Defying Gravity artfully interweaves the past with the present and the lives of participants and bystanders, drawing parallels among painter Claude Monet's artistic quest, the zest of the teacher selected to be the first civilian astronaut, the perspectives of her grieving daughter, the aspirations of elderly tourists who drive their Winnebago to Florida to watch the space shot and dream of hotels in space, the guilt felt by a NASA mechanic, and his girlfriend's fear of heights.

"Flies high in its attempt to describe man's fascination with space and its conquest.... You will certainly not be bored. " - New York Post

"[A] clever and uplifting fantasy ... [with] ear catching musings about art, religion and the outer limits of human possibility." - The New York Times

"A lovely piece... It floats gracefully in the big blue yonder of the imagination... letting Anderson's delicate, tender and human attitude toward her characters come through... One by one they rise out of their earthbound selves... to look down on the world from a new perspective." - New York Daily News