We have covered the work of Natalie Scarlett in the past with Water: Works but her new multimedia performance is open at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery Otterbox Digital Dome Theatre and runs from now to March 21st. This performance will be a wild ride that you won’t want to miss. Written by the English playwright Nick Payne, Constellations is a doozy. When the play was released The Newyorker wrote, “…a singular astonishment, at once eloquent and mysterious but which nonetheless articulates within its own idiosyncratic idiom something that touches an audience as real…” and the New York Times wrote, “Who knew that higher physics could be so sexy, so accessible – and so emotionally devastating?”
Original animations by Sara Wade and a beautiful score by Jesse Bates augment the shifting worlds. For anyone who has struggled to understand the quantum realm’s abstract ideas just from reading about them, “Constellations” is an artistic rendering of a beautiful, cacophonous, and mind-boggling concept through immersive and emotive performance.
Keegan Bockhorst and Ariel Greenspoon embody the two characters, Marianne the quantum physicist and Roland the beekeeper. So get yourself to the Dome Theatre Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 for this 75 minute multimedia show February 28th and March 21st. Get tickets here!
“By seeing multiple choices played out in multiple universes, we get a better idea of who the two characters are and what their relationship could be. Like a Cubist portrait, we see these people from multiple angles simultaneously and can reflect on perennial questions of what makes us human. Are there any constants in love or identity, or are we always a product of our circumstances?”