About the Play:

Infinity is a full-length drama by Hannah Moscovitch with Njo Kong Kie. How does a new Theory of Time change everything we know about ourselves? Infinity tells the story of a brilliant young woman and her parents whose minds collide like particles in an accelerator. Her father is a theoretical physicist and her mother a composer; she is a math whiz. Together, they learn that love and time are connected in ways they couldn't have imagined.

Infinity is infused with theoretical physics, classical music, the seeming impossibility of love, and the idea that what time offers us is more than we realize. Sarah Jean is a brilliant mathematics prodigy who insists she's "very normal," and not at all messed up about love. The sordid relationships she details with men who aren't good for her tell a different story. Her flings turn into year-long relationships against her better judgment and her confusing emotional patterns are only now coming to light. It's time for Sarah Jean to make sense of her past in terms she understands and to discover there is more to time than just its inevitable passing. Flash back to the history of her parents Carmen and Elliott, who meet at a university party. Elliot is a socially awkward theoretical physicist who isn't shy about telling Carmen, a violinist, she's the prettiest girl in the room. He notices that she must be a musician by the tapping of her fingers, and quickly deduces that she knows about time, and the two bond over talks about music and theory. Talks that lead them into bed and into a marriage that should and shouldn't be. As their relationship teeters through time, work and family become a balancing act, and theories are thrown to the stars, revealing truths they're not ready to face. A shocking, funny and revelatory elegy to time and love, Infinity has been crafted with close input from world-renowned physicist Lee Smolin and with an original score by internationally acclaimed composer Njo Kong Kie.

Infinity premiered in 2015 at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, winning the DORA Award for Outstanding New Play. It was revived in 2017 at Tarragon Theatre and toured Southern Ontario. In 2020 it toured BC at The Cultch in Vancouver, the Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre, and The Capitol Theatre in Nelson.

Cast: 2 female, 1 male, and 1 musician

What people say:

"[Infinity] makes you feel as much as it makes you think." — NOW Magazine

"This play is as brilliant as it is haunting – a perfect combination of music, math and science that doesn't make your head hurt, but manages to make your heart hurt." — The Theatre Reader

"Moscovitch is often called a 'hot' Canadian playwright. But according to the laws of science, what is hot will inevitably cool. By now, she has surely proven that the more accurate descriptor is rock solid." — Toronto Star

"A gripping, and complex, play." — Edmonton Journal

About the Playwright:

Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright and TV writer. Her plays have been widely produced across Canada, as well as in the United States, Britain, Europe, Australia and Japan. She has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award for drama (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), and the prestigious Windham Campbell Literary Prize administered by Yale University (she is the first Canadian playwright to win the prize). She's twice been a finalist for the Governor General's Award, and twice for the Siminovitch Prize, as well as the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize honouring the best English-language women writers worldwide.