Photo Flash: Theatre Exile Presents SATURN RETURNS

Theatre Exile presents Saturn Returns, by Noah Haidle. Directed by Brenna Geffers and featuring longtime Philadelphia icon Harry Philibosian, Saturn Returns runs April 28 through May 22 at Christ Church Neighborhood House, with the press opening Wednesday, May 4th at 8pm.

Saturn Returns launches audiences into a bittersweet orbit of memory, loss and love. The play takes its name from Saturn's 30-year orbit around the sun; when Saturn returns to the position it held at a person's birth, it marks a time of great upheaval and personal change. Noah Haidle's elegantly structured tale brings us to three pivotal days in the life of Gustin Novak, at the ages of 28, 58 and finally 88. As loved ones slip in and out of his life, Gustin uses his wicked sense of humor and sharp wit to navigate through the discovery that every beginning is also an end.

Exile's production marks the American premiere of Haidle's newly revised script for Saturn Returns, after the playwright re-imagined the piece in London this past November. With the savagely keen and funny insight that made Mr. Marmalade an audience favorite, Saturn springs nimbly from this quick and wholly unique theatrical mind. As The New Yorker remarks, "Haidle's most prodigious gift may be his psychological sophistication. Beautifully written... Haidle finds a way of dramatizing the presence of absence in all of us."

Photo Credit: Robert Hakalski