Today we attended the play "Silent Sky" by the Bou...

Today we attended the play "Silent Sky" by the Boulder Ensemble Theater Company ( "BETC") at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder. Virtually all of the seats provide the intimacy of practically being in the cast. The play was simply outstanding--easily as good if not better than what we see with our Denver Center Theater Company season ticket subscriptions (renewed for over 25 years straight). The play is set in 1900-1920 and based upon the true accomplishments of a group of women ( including Radcliffe and Wellesley graduates and a talented and authentic Scottish maid) known as "Pickering's Harem" at Boston's Harvard College Observatory. The women were known as star-mapping "computers" (think the Hidden Figures movie, but 50 years earlier!). Combine history, astronomy, love, tragedy, plenty of humor, human vision and striving , set in a period fraught with change--plus excellent casting and direction--and you have a masterpiece. We laughed, we cried and we talked for hours. afterwards.