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Silent Sky

Silent Sky
Your Price: $20.95 CDN
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Author: Lauren Gunderson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 63
Pub. Date: 2015
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0822233800
ISBN-13: 9780822233800
Cast Size: 4 female, 1 male

About the Play:

Silent Sky is a full-length romantic comedy by Lauren Gunderson. With warm-hearted wit and infectious joy, Silent Sky tells the riveting true story of Henrietta Leavitt, a pioneering scientist in an age when women couldn't even vote. Despite not being allowed to touch a telescope at the Harvard Observatory, Henrietta makes an amazing discovery. But will she get the credit? Will her health give out before she gets the answers she’s seeking? Will her family obligations keep her from the man she loves?

Silent Sky plays out against a landscape of fierce sisterly love, early feminism, and universe-revealing science at the dawn of modern astronomy. It's the story of Henrietta Leavitt, a Massachusetts pastor's daughter who leaves her home and beloved sister for a job at Harvard University's Observatory. There she isn't allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women "computers," charting the stars by studying photographic plates for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in "girl hours" and has no time for the women's probing theories. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love. The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt explores a woman's place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women's ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believe in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth. If you liked the movie Hidden Figures, you won't want to miss this "luminously beautiful play" that will change how you look at both the heavens and the earth.

Silent Sky premiered in 2011 on the Segerstrom Stage at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California as part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. The play was a hit and enjoyed widespread acceptance among leading regional theatres, has charmed critics and audiences across America, and become a popular choice for school and community theatre productions.

Cast: 4 female, 1 male

What people say:

"…sheer magic [is] in Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky…Gunderson [writes] economically and with bursts of smart, infectious humor." — San Francisco Chronicle

"Silent Sky could act as a simple reminder of what a pleasant, thought-provoking evening at the theater ought to look like. It's a lively, funny, accessible play that's alive with interesting ideas." — ArtsAtl.com

"[Silent Sky] is a startling, entertaining true story of a brilliant, history-making woman—hitherto unknown to many of us." — AtlantaInTown.com

"Lauren Gunderson's luminously beautiful play Silent Sky is an intellectual epic told on an intimate scale. Bottom line: Heavenly." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

About the Playwright:

Lauren M. Gunderson is an American playwright, screenwriter, and short story author originally from Atlanta, Georgia. She received her BA in English/Creative Writing at Emory University, and her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch, where she was also a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.

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