Nick Payne's Play 'Constellations'

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Constellations is a drama written by Nick Payne. Seventy-five minutes play is on tour visiting different cities in Canada. While Micheal Longhurst directed the play Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall were in the lead roles. The play is about Wilson and Gyllenhaal’s love story. A couple and an impossible relationship. However an impossible relationship might be possible in a different universe. The main themes are destiny, timing and choice. When you look up the sky all you see is a blue sky or maybe a moon and stars, but Consolations makes the audience think twice. What if the biggest problems we all have weren’t even a deal in another universe? What if the universe we live in is just one out of all the other universes we leave out? Now look up

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