Wilbury Group Continues 2018/19 Main Series Season With CONSTELLATIONS

The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its record-breaking 2018/19 Main Series season with Nick Payne's Constellations from March 20 - April 14, 2019. Directed by Aubrey Snowden, the Wilbury Group production features Rachel Dulude as astro-physicist Marianne and Wilbury Artistic Director Josh Short as beekeeper, Roland.

Initially inspired by the PBS documentary The Fabric of the Cosmos and subsequently developed at The Royal Court Theatre in London, Nick Payne's Constellations is the mesmerizing love story that begins simply enough: Marianne and Roland meet at a party. They go for a drink. They fall madly in love and start dating. Or do they? There are infinite possibilities, and a single word may alter their lives at any moment.

CONSTELLATIONS is presented March 20 - April 14 at The Wilbury Theatre Group, 40 Sonoma Court, Providence RI. Tickets are $15-$38. For the complete performance schedule call 401.400.7100 or visit The Wilbury Group at thewilburygroup.org/constellations.

"Four years ago Rachel lent me a copy of the script for Constellations and every season since then we have been waiting for our opportunity to bring it to life," shares Wilbury Artistic Director Josh Short. "As a story it's an incredibly honest and at times devastating portrait of a relationship from every conceivable angle, and it's one of the most ambitious and challenging scripts to hit mainstream theatre ever. In the inventive hands of our design team and under the direction of Aubrey Snowden, who were are so excited to welcome back after her work on our 2016/17 production of Betrayal, this production has been a long time coming and promises to be a Constellations audiences will never forget."

Constellations had its world premiere in London at The Royal Court Theatre in 2012. The Telegraph praised the script as playful, intelligent and bursting with ideas, but also achieves a powerful undertow of emotion. ... The writing is as funny and humane as it is intellectually rigorous. Later the same year, the play was transferred to the West End's Duke of York Theatre and the script won the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best New Play, with Nick Payne becoming the youngest playwright to receive the award. Constellations also received an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play. It debuted on Broadway in 2014 at Manhattan Theatre Club to rave reviews. The New York Times called it a supremely articulate play and queried: Who knew that higher physics could be so sexy, so accessible and so emotionally devastating?

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