unEarthed

Staged Reading

2018

Myra and her father are lucky.  They are some of the few refugees to make it to an alien refugee camp, after the destruction of Earth.  There, they struggle to build a new life and reunite with Myra’s mother.  Myra attends school, designed to teach her, and other displaced refugees from Earth, the mathematical language of  this alien society.  

At the refugee camp, Myra meets Ekon, and together, these “two Gadflys” question their new education, reluctant to embrace this new alien culture and abandon all identity as “People of Earth.”  Together, they secretly begin their own school.  One that teaches the history and culture of the peoples of Earth, one where it’s pupils and teachers are one in the same; refugees sharing their stories from their now ruined planet.  Yet, their new “school,” might attract an unusual friend, and bring these two worlds, closer together.

Written by Lavinia Roberts

Directed by Joseph Schulpbach

The Cast

Lucas Hatton*

Katie Halls

Rose Kim

Ahash Francis

Tristan Atkinson

* Appearing through an Agreement between UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance, and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.