Lauren Gunderson’s drama ‘Silent Sky’ focuses on 20th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and her game-changing work.
Women in the sciences have all too often had trouble having their contributions taken seriously by men entrenched in the field.
Found by American Theatre magazine to be the most produced playwright in America in several recent seasons, Gunderson writes about a great many other topics as well, but these science plays have made up a significant subset of her work. Formerly the Livermore Shakespeare Festival, SPARC’s other production this summer is William Shakespeare’s popular comedy “Much Ado About Nothing,” which opens a few days after “Silent Sky” closes.
Reprising the role she played in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Northern California premiere of the play in 2014, Elena Wright portrays Leavitt with palpable zeal and voracious hunger for knowledge. She’s forcefully forthright and especially flustered in social situations, especially of a romantic nature.
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