Defying Gravity

Defying Gravity

May 22, 2026

07:30 pm

724 Cass St 

La Crosse, 

WI 

54601

A FREE-STRUCTURED LOOK AT THE 1986 CHALLENGER DISASTER. This play artfully interweaves the past with the present and the lives of participants and bystanders, drawing parallels among painter Claude Monet’s artistic quest, the zest of the teacher selected to the first civilian astronaut, the perspectives of her grieving daughter, the aspirations of elderly tourists who drive their Winnebago to Florida to watch the space shot and dream of hotels in space, the guilt felt by a NASA mechanic, and his girlfriend’s fear of heights.

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