Stage Struck

Linus Gelber

Rebecca Hart discovers a moment of peace in the midst of a seizure in her play at H.E.R.E. in Downtown Manhattan, and Martina Potratz leans over to comfort her.

Struck, co-written by Rebecca and Robert Saietta, is a layered contemplation on lightning, electricity, transience, and creativity, among a few other big issues. It confounds and concatenates lightning and thought in the person of an itinerant singer/songwriter, Beth Prosser, whose life was changed fundamentally when was struck by lightning a decade earlier. The 10-year anniversary of her endless tour matches her with her fading father, angry brother, and hallucinated mother, mixed up with a couple of lo-fi techie fanboy nerds and some plot points from The Tempest.

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