Constellations: do not miss your chance
Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life - Mary Oliver I started my review of the Alan Ayckbourn time-travel play Communicating Doors with, “What if you could do it all over again and have it come out differently?” For Constellations , now playing (through Sunday 8/7/25) at SecondStory Rep, I want to start off with: what if you are doing it all over again right now? The multiverse is the idea behind Constellations. I am not sure I know exactly what the multiverse is, but how it came across in this play is that each choice you make ripples and ramifies and leads to a future that possibly is radically different than if you had chosen to respond in another way. But the play is not a thought experiment. It’s about two people, Marianne, played by Leah Shannon and Roland, played by BJ Smyth. In one universe, they never meet, in one universe they meet but nothing happens, in another universe they meet but break up, in another they get married but it falls apar...