Free New Play Development in Flat Earth’s 2017-18 Season
Join us for these additional events over the course of our 12th season! They’re not included in your subscription — but that’s only because they’re free.
He Is Dead
It's business as usual in the afterlife until an unexpected death upends the worlds of angels, demons, and many exalted beings in between. Particularly affected is Lucifer M. Star, whose journey through the stages of grief for a friend he had thought immortal ignites a pursuit for the truth behind what really happened, even if it means literally bringing hell up to heaven. Filled with allusions to far-ranging religious lore, He Is Dead concludes Flat Earth member Kevin Kordis' "Blood Berry Trilogy" (Grandma's House, The Man from Willow's Brook) by adding a modern twist to the Good Book.
Learn MoreThe Greenhouse PlayLab, a Climate Change Theatre Incubator
Flat Earth Theatre will commission several new plays from premiere Boston playwrights: MJ Halberstadt (The Launch Prize, That Time the House Burned Down), Nina Louise Morrison (Born Naked, Google Doll), Francisca Da Silveira (Heritage Hill Naturals, fruit of thy labor), and Flat Earth co-founder Kevin Mullins (A Southern Victory, Citizens of the Empire: a Space Opera).
Playwrights will work with actors, directors, dramaturgs, and climate scientists through the year in a development process which culminates on Friday, May 4, 2018 with a festival of readings at the Museum of Science, followed by free public workshop performances of the new plays throughout the month of May. We are excited to consider the human impact of climate change from angles as varied as superstorms and rising sea levels, Antarctic independence, drought and water scarcity, and the Global Seed Vault!
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