←Recommendations of THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT

This is a fun, easy-to-produce play that explores the physical space of a theater in a unique and interesting way. That by itself makes it worthy, but Cross gives us explorers who are quirky good company, a fresh twist on the stock scientist character. "The Time is Out of Joint" is a treat for physicists and theater majors alike! Would love to see it produced.

Love it! This short play captures the ephemerality of the theatre and its magic. Theatrical, quirky--with some great allusions to the classics: "I was taking notes at Doctor Faustus recently, and towards the end he said he had but one hour left and it most certainly didn't take an hour for the demons to drag his soul to hell." Great fun!

Fascinating to consider time within the audience and time of the actors onstage, and to measure with stop watches -- is there a difference? The references to Faustus and The Tempest made me think of other plays and their use of time. For Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the roughly 2+ hours onstage would be the continuous 2+ hours of the characters lives. Skin of Our Teeth covers millennia. Marvelous to read this play and reflect on it.

Once again, Cross creates a pithy and entertaining rumination on a philosophical theme, in this case how time passes in the for the characters of a dramatic performance. Her intelligently meta construct confounds the senses into believing what is being witnessed is not a play but an experiment to the extent that we are truly astonished when the results are surprising. Three cheers for the scientific method! Three cheers for the dramatic world! Three cheers for Monica Cross! Highly recommended.

I felt a shiver of wonder when reading "The Time is out of Joint," namely when Monica Cross uses stopwatches to drive home the point. The action: slight. The results: a slight difference in expectation. But the results are stunning.

∫γ p_a dq^a | q_1 = black box event | q_2 = black hole event

A brilliantly conceived deconstruction of scientific Time: two “Femme” scientists break through the fourth wall and discover dramatic “time” renders bizarrely unpredictable measurements. Cross uses oblique references to Shakespeare and Marlowe with agile wit, rendering the solemnity of her two characters all the more absurd and yet poignant: their observations suggest Time can be “out of joint” for anyone, no matter how rational or seemingly detached. I love the way this play gets the audience involved in its project.

Hilarious and strange and absurdist and wonderful, and I love that there are Femme Scientists!

What an interesting idea, and a well-conducted initial trial of a reasonable hypothesis, performed by the characters of the play, in the theatre, in real time/s! Zola believed art could be a kind of laboratory for human behavior; in this play the theatre is a laboratory. Too often science plays are just biographies of gifted individuals. This, though, is play as science. The two researcher-characters are exploring their world to try to understand how it works; that's the best that any of us can do irl or onstage. We need a full evening of plays like this!