Director Daniella Topol's straightforward staging keeps the action moving smoothly on the minimal set. But the play strains from the author's efforts to neatly link Anna's brain and the universe.
Yankowitz relies one of Anna's colleagues, Bill (Tuck Milligan), to do this.
As Bill lectures students about the Big Bang, he calls it "an incredible cosmic accident — an old order destroyed and everything beginning again." We get it — just like Anna.