Voices of BTM XVI: Stefan Lanfer

Stefan Lanfer

Last year, we bought a family membership to Boston’s Museum of Science. We’ve taken our kids there a dozen times since. It is such a playground of the mind. There is so much to see and do. Yet, without fail, whenever we go, my seven year old, James, drags one of us, or all of us back to the lightning show, to that massive, whirring Van de Graff Machine and its display of awesome electric power. He has seen it so many times, he could give the presentation himself.

There is just something irresistible about lightning.

Jon Jory, long-time producing director at the Actors Theatre of Louisville has likened the 10-minute play to a “theatrical bolt of lightning.” This Sunday, at the Calderwood Pavilion in Boston’s South End, there is lightning in the forecast - 10 hours of lightning strikes in the 16^th annual (and my first) Boston Theater Marathon. “It doesn’t last long,” Jory continued, “but its power can stand your hair on end.”