(No) Exit to Mars - a New Year, New Draft Reading

7:30pm November 18th at Scripps Ranch Theatre

8:00pm November 19th at New Village Arts

Tickets offered free of charge.

It’s the not-too-distant-future, and Earth can barely support life, so an eccentric tech billionaire blasts off in a spaceship to colonize Mars. Travelling alongside him are his much-younger wife, his over-eager assistant and her skeptical husband, and an advanced AI program. When the hyper-sleep pods malfunction, however, all four humans will have no choice but to get along with each other in cramped quarters with dwindling supplies throughout the entire seven month journey. Interweaving class, climate change, sex, and technology, this dark comedy asks, “How much further can we take all this?” And, “whose fault is this, really?”

This reading is the culmination of New Year, New Draft, Loud Fridge's playwright's residency focused on developing plays from San Diego playwrights.