Oh yes, it's time to be nerdy about physics. Multiverses keep popping up in the media I'm consuming right now - usually fitting in with sci-fi and superheroes. Constellations is much more grounded than that - it isn't about fate or destiny, it's more about chance and choice. Like an elevated choose your own adventure book, the same scenes play out repeatedly in new ways.
"The b-b-basic laws of physics don't have a past and a present. Time is irrelevant at the level of a-atoms and molecules. It's symmetrical."
Nick Payne gives us two hilarious characters who sometimes like and even love each other, but in many universes just find the other odd. There's no judgement about how they need to look past first impressions, it is just circumstances. Having a bad day, not memorising a speech about bees, already being engaged, and suddenly you are in a new reality.
What I love about this play is that the choices matter, but they don't end the story. What if the first-time you protagonists met, they didn't connect? We get that, but we also get what happens when they do.
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