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Arts Alive! podcast: The Off-Central’s ‘Constellations’
Meet the cast: Logan Franke and Keith Batchelor.
Today on Arts Alive! we welcome Logan Franke and Keith Batchelor, who play star-crossed lovers – literally – in the new drama at the Off-Central in St. Petersburg, Constellations.
From British playwright Nick Payne, Constellations presents Marianne and Roland, a theoretical cosmologist and a beekeeper, respectively. Their relationship is new, and as it progresses we’re privileged to sit it on many of its key moments.
And sit in on them again and again, each time from a slightly different perspective, resulting in a slightly different outcome.
Marianne tells Roland about the multiverse theory, which contends that there are multiple universes where “Marianne and Roland” are experiencing roughly the same things, and having roughly the same conversations.
It’s a tantalizing setup, and the actors are charged with repeating entire conversations with different inflections, different stage movements and different emotions.
Emotions, indeed, are at the heart of Constellations, for all its serious talk about physics and space, and its humorous discussion of the habits of honeybees.
The play runs through Oct. 25 at the Off-Central.
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