This intimate play reflects the impressionism in the title: magically, it dramatizes the feeling of staying up all night, and the thoughts and memories that visit while your brain is simultaneously wired and sleepy. I love the intimacy of the overheard conversations and how seamlessly the play's magic overlaps with the mundane. Endlessly versatile, there are beautiful roles for any type of performer. I think this text would absolutely sing, even with simple staging. So Human and so fearless!

A fiercely tender, astonishing piece—about loss, yes, but more urgently about the strange, luminous abundance that follows it. Stage it simply, or stage extravagantly, it will hold. Adam has written something vast with startling intimacy; he understands love in all its labyrinths. You will be undone.

I settled in to read this - all cozy on a winter’s eve - expecting a vignette play (i do love those, and I love the setting - a lake) but was surprised and moved to find a play that was filled with sweet meditations. Meditations on life, grief, holding, letting go and searching the skies for meaning. Szymkowicz is a master in finding common humanity, the connections that bind us, separate us, and bring us to new understandings.