![]() And somewhere inside it is the information that could help himin fact it may even save his life. If you could go back in time to fix your broken life, wouldn’t you? Yu could – and did. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. Perantoni), who struggles to overcome low self-esteem to be of greater help. Short’s Yu interacts wistfully with his younger selves with his loving mother, who’s caught up in a domestic timeloop and with his female computer (voiced by Elena M. ![]() Thanks to a multimedia production that deftly employs many TV screens and other projections, this play becomes much more than a solo work. Almost as athletic, intellectual and verbal as a Hamlet, Short fleshes out a dead-end Everyman who runs around the theater space like an intelligent rat in a maze, exploring every option as time runs out. Ian Short commands attention with a chameleonic performance. It concerns a young man who has spent most of the past decade in a small time machine in his job as a time machine repairman. A whimsical yet sincere tribute to old-school science fiction and quantum physicsA fascinating, philosophical and disorienting thriller about life and the. Sophocles would have appreciated the Aristotelian unities of time and place integrated so neatly into this real-time drama, while Oedipus Rex would have sympathized with the tragicomic plight of the central character – also named Charles Yu – who struggles against fate. Charles Yu's debut novel, How to Life Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, could be described as a story about contemporary family life disguised as science fiction. ![]()
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