Some of the most fun I had in writing SILENT SKY was the awkward, uncool, terribly-timed, hiccupping

Some of the most fun I had in writing SILENT SKY was the awkward, uncool, terribly-timed, hiccupping romance between Henrietta and Peter.  They are both unprepared for each other, and have no model for how to flirt, communicate, or proceed in love. Peter was more likely trained by his father to talk to women and procure a wife. His future had more flexibility and shades of possibility than Henrietta’s. He could marry late or early or not at all.  But Henrietta likely counted herself a solo act when she didn’t marry at a younger age. She would have assumed that she wouldn’t marry, choosing her work at Harvard Observatory over a family.  But there is nothing to suggest that Henrietta didn’t have room for romance at some point. This story allows her to step out of the spinster stereotype and breathe in the fuller life of a complete woman, mind and heart firing at once.  In the end the play focuses more on independence and self-possession than romance. A kind of feminism that allows for love and loss and friendship of all stripes.  What a thing to imagine. -- source link

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