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The playwright Sarah Gancher has a gift for invoking theaters extraordinary power of simultaneity.
Space and time are the same thing.
Just like Im here now, but I could be in Hawaii.
Im here now, but I could be 300 years in the future.
Running screaming from the safe middle, which never turns out to be all that safe after all.
(Here, Sunny is embodied by Pete Simpson, who just couldnt be better.)
The streetlights didnt work.
A pack of wild dogs lived on Beard Street.
Worst comes to worst, throw the bike at them.
So much for wildness but not for danger.
We are ending and ending and ending our world, Gancher writes.
All because of money: A fiction that is eating the planet.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse arent just warlords; theyre landlords.
It will happen again.
When the flood comes, says Regan, memories lift up and float.
Rose was not allowed to join.
But the show isnt a documentary.
It wants to pluck the strings of larger ideas and resonant parallels.
And so many women who have been there keeping the walls from falling.
I dont know what you want me to do, Sunny tells her, poison in his voice.
Im not Mr. Mundane Details … Im a poet and to me, this is grief!
How can Tone still love this man?
But in the shows final moments, director Jared Mezzocchi shifts ground.
We are, for a moment, in stride with our ancestors and fully aware of their presence.
There is a now when two boys were leaping from a dock this very one?
Without admonishment or accusation,The Wind and the Rainoffers us the gift of responsibility.
The Wind and the Rainis at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook through October 27.
