Syzygy at Theatre for the New City

When a mother dies, she leaves behind more than just furniture. She leaves the architecture of everything her children became, and everything they couldn't. In one hour, in one house, two siblings who share blood and almost nothing else must sort through the wreckage of a life of conflicting memories. Syzygy is a darkly comic excavation of the gravity that pulls opposites into perfect alignment. Inspired by Jungian psychology, Syzygy explores the idea that some forces only reveal themselves in opposition and that you cannot fully exist until you reckon with the one person who reflects everything you are not. One act. Sixty minutes. A lifetime of debris.