←Recommendations of Silent Sky

Silent Sky is an absolutely beautiful play about female friendship and going beyond expectations! The dialogue is beautiful and funny and the play as a whole is incredibly inspiring. This play also places a spotlight on a group of women which have been forgotten by history and elevates their stories.

A brilliant, but (according to some) starry-eyed woman is given what she initially considers to be grunt work and still manages to change the world. This piece bursts with poetry while following Henrietta Leavitt's personal and professional journey, all the while managing to remind us of historical context. When the climax comes, the weight of a life's work is genuinely felt.

It's such a great pleasure to watch a play, as it comes to a close, rise up and gather itself and deliver a serious emotional punch. SILENT SKY does that and more, providing laughs, connection, and the solid common sense to treat the audience as intelligent enough to follow both the science and human relationships. A delightful piece, and I'm so glad to have discovered it.

Lauren Gunderson tells this complex tale with utter (and enviable) simplicity. And charm and grace. She celebrates science with passion. And she's a master of pacing. SILENT SKY is a bright and bittersweet play.

Lauren Gunderson has this amazing talent of making any subject she takes on accessible and magical. SILENT SKY is no different. There is so much heart and soul and humor in this script, it breaks your heart in all the right places.

Such an utterly beautiful, breathtaking vast play. The protagonist with her eyes to the sky, to discovery, is the kind of character every actress wants to play. What I most appreciated about Silent Sky, is that there is no talking down to the audience. You are expected to understand astronomy, and for these 110 pages, you do!