Saturn Returns
Opening Night: November 11, 2008
Closing: January 4, 2009
Theater: Mitzi E. Newhouse
The planet Saturn’s orbital return to its position at the moment of a person’s birth happens every thirty years. In Saturn Returns, playwright Noah Haidle uses this phenomenon to take a look at one man — Gustin — during these pivotal moments as he confronts the three women in his life.
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November 11, 2008
A troubled, solitary man nearing the end of his life shares a living room with the ghosts from his past in “Saturn Returns,” a wintry new play by Noah Haidle that opened on Monday night at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. Shifting among scenes that cover more than half a century in the life of a happy husband who becomes a sudden widower and a bereft father, the play is a muted study in the constancy of loneliness and need.
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