Vision Disturbance
by Christina Masciotti

“…Christina Masciotti’s marvelously strange and humane two-hander… When an eye-patch-wearing Mondo complains to Dr Hull that everything appears flat and undifferentiated, she’s talking about more than depth perception.

As an immigrant going through a vicious divorce from her traditional Greek husband in a foreign country, Mondo is unfixed.

Not only is she unable to judge the distance between objects, she can’t even locate herself in the world.

Her sessions with Hull might help things come into focus—emotionally, culturally and otherwise… Masciotti’s language is beautifully wrought: a keen interplay of the boring and the weirdly poetic, evoking both silliness and pathos in Mondo’s pidgin syntax and Hull’s repressed small talk.

And even though romance enters the picture, VISION DISTURBANCE is more than a simplistic tale of illness and recovery.

In allowing the characters to remain opaque, the creators embrace obscurity.”David Cote, Time Out New York “The eyes are the window not just to the soul but to the psyche in VISION DISTURBANCE, Christina Masciotti’s deceptively disarming play about two damaged people who are thrown together when one is called upon to heal the other.

But which one?

On the surface, VISION DISTURBANCE rides a quirky, offbeat charm, but there are mysteries and riddles under the surface… There’s nothing orthodox about these characters or the touching bond that grows between them… Masciotti is a writer of promise, not least because she understands that there is no single way of seeing.”Don Aucoin, Boston Globe