presented by Flat Earth Theatre
By Steven Dietz
Directed by Lindsay Eagle
August 16 – 24, 2013
Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street
Watertown, MA
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Review by Gillian Daniels
(Watertown) The center of Rocket Man is the unraveling life of middle-aged divorcee, Donny (Robin Gabrielli), an unsteady center for an unassuming story. Flat Earth Theatre has certainly taken on a tough show to pull off well. Newly single and struggling to maintain his relationship with his teenage daughter, Trisha (Mariagrazia LaFauci), Donny is having a slow-moving breakdown. He fights back with fantasies of traveling to space and going to another reality where time travels backward and his wife, Rita (Korinne T. Ritchey), is still with him. Continue reading