God in the Fun Machine.("Passion Play" and "Equus")(Theater review)

In 1997, as the playwright Sarah Ruhl was on her way to see the first work of hers to be produced, she was knocked unconscious in a car accident. Nonetheless, she managed to get to the show--two short plays that now, with the addition of a third, make up "Passion Play" (elegantly directed by Mark Wing-Davey, in a Yale Repertory Theatre production, in New Haven). The event, which was given a standing ovation, proved to be a turning point. "I thought, This is it," she said this year. "It was momentous and strange." More than a decade on, it was stranger still for Ruhl to stand outside Yale's University Theatre and feel that her extraordinary cycle was finally complete.