Limited Engagement
Now Through June 20
Purchase tickets here.
Baruch Performing Arts Center's
Rose Nagelberg
Theater
55 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10010
NIGHT SKY explores what the great physicist Stephen Hawking has called
the two remaining mysteries — the brain and the cosmos. The play looks
at what happens to a brilliant, articulate astronomer, her family and
career when she is struck by a car and loses her ability to speak, a
condition known as "aphasia." What emerges from her mouth is
a hodgepodge of disconnected words alternately poetic, funny, confusing
and profound. Anna, her loved ones and colleagues, face uncommon challenges
of mind and spirit as they must fight as they learn new ways to communicate,
and what it really means to listen.
The
National Aphasia Association (NAA)
is a nonprofit organization that promotes public education, research,
rehabilitation and support services to assist people with aphasia and
their families. www.aphasia.org