It's about the taking of photographs.

Steve Martin's MACRO slows down and beautifully creates for us a portrait in oddly-suspended time, expertly leaving spare but effective clues to what's happening outside its frame.

It's about the taking of photographs, sure.

It's also about how we try to control and bend time in the face of the dreaded inevitable.

It's about fear, and coping, and focus, and clarity, and breath, and memory.

But, sure.

It's also about the taking of photographs.

"Everything goes away when you’re looking at the color of hibiscus petals."

This line alone makes MACRO [a monologue] worth the read. You don't have to be a photographer to understand its beauty, but life within the viewfinder (and the mind of those looking through it) is perfectly relayed by playwright Steven G. Martin.

It theatricalizes the act of taking a photo both literally and also by allowing the audience itself to take their own photo, zooming in on the speaker and getting a moment of pinpoint clarity and focus before the shutter snaps.