British playwright Nick Payne excels at a subgenre let's call the Science Weepie. He deploys facts to frame or metaphorize the problems of his protagonists, and the collision of data and human pain is often quite affecting. Payne mines drama from deep research into climate change (If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet) quantum theory (Constellations) and brain science (Elegy, which just opened in London). Actually, Payn…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:31AM on May 25, 2016