I'm Susan Myer Silton, and I'm the director of Silent Sky.
I'm Julie James, and the Artistic Director of Jewel Theatre Company.
A subscriber actually suggested the play to me
and I read it, and immediately thought
it would be a great choice for Jewel Theatre...
and, I thought Susan would be a wonderful choice for directing it.
It's a period piece...
It's about women, it's about science
it has comedy, love, drama...
The wonders of the universe.
I feel very grateful
It is a wonderful play...
and it has so many wonderful elements.
And it's a true story.
The story of the play is about
a young woman who has a tremendous talent.
And she made some very important, ground-breaking discoveries....
in astronomy, while she was working as a "computer"
in the Harvard Observatory offices, with other women "computers."
It's a celebration, really, of women in science,
women in astronomy.  That's what it is.
It's about wonder.
It's about light.
And illumination...
of who we are, and why we're here...
and that there are so many discoveries out there,
things that have never been known...
...limitless discoveries.
Which Henrietta tells us in the play.
