Schoolhouse Arts Center presents

Night Sky

Written by Susan Yankowitz

Directed by Jerry Walker

September 17-26

Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.

Sundays at 2:00 p.m.

When she is hit by a car, the brilliant and articulate astronomer Anna loses her ability to speak, a condition known as aphasia.  What emerges from her mouth is a hodge-podge of unconnected words alternately confusing, funny, original and wise—and sometimes all four.  In a series of brief, often comic episodes, the play follows Anna through her illness and ultimate acceptance of herself—a personal triumph, despite a continuing infirmity—and dramatizes the impact of her changed circumstances on her lover, her teen-aged daughter, and her professional life.

Everyone will be touched by the themes this play considers—language, inner and outer space, the challenges of a devastating affliction, the consolation and ordeals of family life and, most of all, the universal hunger and need for communication.

“A moving and poetic experience.  Like the sky, it is a play of seemingly infinite depth”

Los Angeles Times

$12 for Students & Seniors / $15 for Adults

Call 642-3743 for reservations or buy tickets

on-line at www.schoolhousearts.org

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. New York City