Off to Space

“Where did you say you’re going? … Space?”

Synopsis

In the near future, when SpaceX space travel has become reality, a once-happy family struggles after the mother’s death — on the father’s birthday, whether by suicide or accident, no one knows.

Three years later, on the father’s sixtieth birthday, the family gathers and tries hard to make it cheerful — until a call comes from the memorial park: the mother’s urn has disappeared. Then the father drops a bombshell:

“I’m leaving. For space.”

About the production

Nevertheless, once more — an adventure Off to Space was created from imagining families who remain deeply human amid ordinary dreams and futures. Love, parting, and pain — and still we must set out on the adventure called tomorrow. Our reality can seem as exaggerated and dreamlike as the events of a play. In an age that has lost its utopias and ideals, what adventure can we dream of?

How to face a parting over dinner If we knew why, could we let go? A mother who died on the father’s birthday; a father who, at sixty, chooses a journey of no return. Partings beyond understanding, one after another… The family’s process of accepting and remembering someone’s absence is expressed through the everyday ritual of dinner.

The joy of company-made theatre Why not discover theatre made by a company in a small playhouse — raw and alive? The breath and ensemble that come from working together for years, a consistent artistic focus, concentration, energy and intensity — the distinctive pleasures of company theatre reach the audience in rich form.