Constellations A Play [Paperback]

A singular astonishment. John Lahr,The New Yorker

One relationship. Infinite possibilities.
In the beginning Marianne and Roland meet at a party. They go for a drink, or perhaps they don't. They fall madly in love and start dating, but eventually they break up. After a chance encounter in a supermarket they get back together, or maybe they run into each other and Marianne reveals that she's now engaged to someone else and that's that. Or perhaps Roland is engaged. Maybe they get married, or maybe their time together will be tragically short.
Nick Payne'sConstellationsis a play about free will and friendship; it's also about quantum multiverse theory, love, and honey.

Nick Payneis the author of the playsIf There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, which won the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for best play;Wanderlust;One Day When We Were Young; andLay Down Your Cross, among others. He is the winner of the 2009 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and the 2012 Harold Pinter Playwright's Award. He is currently under commission with the Royal Court Theatre, the Donmare Warehouse, and the Manhattan Theatre Club. He was born in 1984 and lives in Norwich, England.

Who knew that higher physics could be so sexy, so accessible--and so emotionally devastating?Constellations, Nick Payne's gorgeous two-character drama, starring a perfectly matched Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, may be the most sophisticated date play Broadway has seen. Ben Brantley, The New York Times

The play may fixate on physics, but the chemistry between the two leads is potent enough to move an audience to tears. Alexis Soloski, The Guardian

The pleasure of the evening lies in the way it is both eminently sensible and completely nonsensical. Details accumulate sufficiently to explain character and plot, while throwing us so off-guard as to make questions ofl“)