Sympathetic Magic
by Lanford Wilson

"Winner of the 1997 Obie Award for Playwriting. ”Lanford Wilson's idiosyncratic SYMPATHETIC MAGIC is his best play yet…the rare play you WANT…chock-full of ideas, incidents, witty or poetic lines, scientific and philosophical argument…you'll find your intellectual faculties racing.“ —New York Magazine. ”The mystery of the unexplored universe and the mystery of artistic creation begin to re-volve around the more familiar mystery of life on earth and why we keep reproducing it. She does something unwise, he does something unforgivable. The result changes them and everyone in their intimate circle, irrevocably. The play ends where it started, with the scientist lecturing about the inexplicable nature of the universe and the “dark matter” of which it seems to be largely composed; only now we've experienced what he means. Wilson has made the dark matter in human beings tangible; particularly in the scientist, whom we come to like and understand before he does something monstrous, and who"

— Village Voice