However, it seems clear that, given the resources of this particular production, more attention should have been paid to simply communicating the emotions of the characters and the intriguing juxtaposition between the chaos of the home and the solace that Tillie finds in her science experiments.
Overall, the evening is more confusing than painful. And perhaps a bit of pain would not be such a bad thing, if this pain represented the connection between the audience and the events on stage that this production sadly fails to achieve.