Levitation

Arriving home unexpectedly to visit his family, Joe, a would-be playwright who earns his living working for a newspaper in New York City, finds the house locked and apparently deserted

Then his father, a retired minister who has been sitting in the backyard watching for shooting stars, suddenly appears, followed in turn by other family members and friends

Included are Joe's mother; his sister and her young son; a favorite former teacher of his father's (who, by Joe's calculation, should have died years before)

Orville Wright (who really can't still be alive); and Joe's male lover, Ira, a flippant young Jewish caterer from New York who, unaccountably, seems to get along famously with the others

As the action progresses the line between the real and the imagined becomes progressively more blurred until, the play's deeply affecting final moments

By then Joe has come to accept both the fact of death and the transitoriness of life, and to realize that the two are a continuum in which our loved ones are never lost to us as long as memory persists

A haunting and evocative memory play, presented with great critical and popular success by Off-Broadway's renowned Circle Repertory Company

Dealing with a young man's return to his childhood home, the play mingles real and imagined characters, as it helps him to come to terms with the finality of death-and the brevity of life

"It is a thoughtful, thought-provoking, exciting play" ~ NY Post

" Mason has shaped a subtle and delicate evolution from apparent realism into something else" ~ Village Voice