Season 11

“The Underside Exposed”

Dead But Dreaming
Dead But Dreaming A Month's Exploration of the Work of H.P. Lovecraft
October 8th - 22nd, 2016
Dead But Dreaming

Following the success of our 2014 live radio drama Lovecraft’s Unnamable Tales, Flat Earth will unleash the Great Old Ones on Boston with two new H.P. Lovecraft–themed readings: Arkham Books and Lovecraft's Tales Outside Time and Space.

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Silent Sky
Silent Sky Lauren Gunderson
March 10th - 26th, 2017
Silent Sky

At Harvard Observatory at the turn of the 20th century, Henrietta Leavitt joins a group of women tasked with charting the heavens without being allowed to touch a telescope. Despite restrictions placed on her because of her sex, Henri devotes her life to the study of celestial bodies just out of reach, balancing the needs of love and family close at hand. Inspired by the real-life woman whose work allowed astronomers to measure the distance of faraway galaxies, Lauren Gunderson's melodious, evocative Silent Sky challenges how we explore our universe by revealing the music of the stars.

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Fat Pig
Fat Pig Neil LaBute
June 9th - 24th, 2017
Fat Pig

Smart, sexy and fat, Helen lives in a world that judges her for her weight. Her new, conventionally thin, boyfriend Tom quickly becomes enamored with her despite the condemnation of his shallow, often convincing friends that threatens their relationship. Neil LaBute's unapologetic Fat Pig bluntly addresses what people see when they look at bodies – all bodies – and which ones deserve a happy ending.

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Small Projects in Flat Earth's 2016-17 Season

Join us for these free staged readings over the course of our 11th season!

The Sound of Cracking Bones

Much like countless children across the globe, Elikia and Joseph have been torn from their homes and families, pressed into service in a brutal civil war. This is the child soldiers’ testimonial: the story of an unlikely flight towards freedom where welcome remains uncertain.

Hauntingly evocative and devastatingly beautiful, The Sound of Cracking Bones presents a lyrical recollection of two children's capture, escape, and rescue, in the words of the girl who has learned to see the gun as an extension of her arm.

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The Taming

Join us for a fresh and feminist take on American Constitutional Government – complete with tiaras, pantsless hostages, and George Washington himself – in Silent Sky playwright Lauren Gunderson's political farce The Taming. Flat Earth Theatre will be hosting a staged reading as part of Gunderson's Inauguration Day Project, a nationwide series of events that bluntly addresses today's divisive political landscape through humor and inclusion.

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