Did anyone see 73 seconds?
73 seconds playing at an intimate planetarium. It’s about the writer trying to understand the past of his mother. Similar in theme to Liberation and Rheology.
Did you like this show?
I really wanted to like it but find it hard to invest in emotionally. >!The writer & performer Jared repeatedly asked the question ”What did my mother do at NASA?” And regrets that he will never get the answer. He made it sound like his mother made a personal sacrifice by choosing family over career, and that she kept her past with NASA as a secret. !<
>!I can’t help but wonder if she is truly a potentially great engineer/astronaut as he makes her out to be? Yes she worked for NASA out of college, but it was a contract job. Yes she was in the selection pool for the Challenger, but the teacher in space project wasn’t necessarily prestigious. Maybe she truly doesn’t have heroic stories to tell, not just because she has Alzheimer’s.!<
>!He knew that his mother worked for NASA when he was 18 graduating from high school, but didn’t bother to ask her to share her stories until recently when she has alzheimer‘s is also puzzling.!<
Welcome any discussion of the show! Thx.