Play Time

A Common Vision

by Neena Beber

3m, 3f

Six lives collide around a transcendent vision in a night sky.  Dolores' private anguish becomes a matter of public debate when a respected psychologist convinces her she was abducted by aliens.  And to think she got dumped by some guy.  A Common Vision chronicles Dolores' journey when her personal crisis of faith and dovetails with a larger cultural phenomenon.

This play does a fine job of depicting ones perception of the same event.  Just when we think life couldn't be more complex, throw a possible alien abduction in the mix and your sure to need on-going therapy.  The characters in this play are driven by the need for love, and who can't relate that.  Love lost, and in desperation Dolores will cling on to anything to explain her feelings of disorder.

Neena Beber leaves a lot of room for the directors individual vision.  Her transitions of dialogue between characters had my mind in over-drive fantasizing lighting and set.  An enjoyable challenge for any director and a splendid simple, truthful give and take amongst the characters.

"The common vision Dolores, her therapist and witnesses share turns out to be as provocative as it is unreliable.  And that's what makes part of Beber's vision so uncommonly rewarding."

-Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Examiner