Infinity
Infinity
Hannah Moscovitch
Sarah Jean is a mathematics prodigy who finds safety in numbers, in the reliability of their defined nature. Her affinity for unhealthy relationships, however, remains a complete mystery. Her flings turn into year-long relationships against better judgment and her confusing emotional patterns are only now coming to light. It’s time for Sarah Jean to make sense of her past in terms she understands and to discover there is more to time than just its inevitable passing. Elliot is a theoretical physicist who spends most of his time thinking about time and how to unify all physics. So when he meets Carmen, a violinist, the two bond over talks about music and theory. Talks that lead them into bed and into a marriage that should and shouldn’t be. As their relationship teeters through time, work and family become a balancing act, and theories are thrown to the stars, revealing truths they’re not ready to face.
Available
2017
978-1-77091-734-7
Drama
Playwrights Canada Press
Hannah Moscovitch
Hannah Moscovitch, born on June 5th, 1978, in Ottawa, Canada, is a playwright who rose to national prominence in the first decade of the 21st century. She received the 2021 Governor General’s Award for English-language Drama for her play “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes”. Moscovitch has gained considerable notoriety with two short plays written for Toronto’s SummerWorks, “Essay”, in 2005, and “The Russian Play”, in 2006. Her first full-length play, “East of Berlin”, premiered at the Tarragon Theatre in 2007. The play (available on DCPAS) focuses on the legacy of the children of those involved directly in the Holocaust. The play returned to Tarragon Theatre 2009 and 2010.
2013 saw the premiere of “This Is War”, a play depicting the lives of Canadian troops in Afghanistan. In 2015, Moscovitch wrote “Infinity” (also available on DCPAS), about a physicist who becomes involved in a love story while contemplating the nature of time. She collaborated with Lee Smolin to lend verisimilitude to some of the theoretical ideas.
Moscovitch’s plays have been widely produced across Canada, including at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Ottawa’s Great Canadian Theatre Company, The National Arts Centre, Toronto’s Factory Theatre, Edmonton’s Theatre Network, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, Vancouver’s Firehall Arts Centre, and the Alberta Theatre Projects.
In 2021, she created the series “Little Bird” with Jennifer Podemski for the Canadian television channel Crave.