On the dark, frigid wasteland of Pluto, a team of astronauts find themselves marooned and out of contact with Earth. With nothing to do but wait, the crew struggles to maintain their sanity as the very fabric of reality begins to unravel around them. Channeling sci-fi horror classics such as Alien, Event Horizon, and Sunshine, Alistair McDowall's groundbreaking play poses the question: Can you solve for X?

Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the historic moon landing on July 20th, 1969, Flat Earth Theatre is commissioning two new plays that explore our relationship with our nearest celestial neighbor, and ponder our next steps towards worlds beyond. Company members A. Lehrmitt (Lovecraft's Tales Outside Time & Space, Lovecraft's Unnamable Tales) and Kevin Mullins (A Southern Victory, Citizens of the Empire) take on the stellar task of navigating the moon and its society, both as a radio play and an onstage production. The project launches on Saturday, July 20th, 2019 with readings from the plays at Comicazi.

In the not-so-distant future, climate change has intensified and scientists are recommending that we colonize elsewhere. Cassie, a NASA botanist, returns from her year-long deployment in space and is shocked to find her twin sister, Stella, a former NASA architect, engaged to a member of the “Earth Advocates,” an organization dedicated to reclaiming our climate change–ravaged planet.Grappling with questions of rivalry, love, and responsibility, their relationship loses its tether, as the twins argue over two impossible scenarios: either find a way to save the Earth or relocate humanity somewhere not yet doomed. Walden asks timely and pertinent questions that get to the very soul of what humanity means. What do we owe each other, ourselves, and the very planet on which we reside? Can we escape our problems, merely by leaving them behind, if we only travel far enough? Or are we forever bound by geography, blood and family? How do we create meaning in a world that is falling apart?