A couple deciding whether or not to have a child embark on separate journeys through time and space.  The seventh in a series of ecology-inspired Planet Plays, EARTH is a quasi-immersive theatrical event exploring the personal, social and environmental questions surrounding contemporary issues of population. Created collaboratively and remotely by international teams of artists and scientists based on limitations inspired by the Voyager Golden Record project. 

The Planet Plays is the long-term project of NYC eco-theater collective Superhero Clubhouse. Like the other plays in the series, EARTH utilizes movement, music and media in addition to text in order to create a multi-dimensional approach to storytelling. The process of making EARTH is inspired by its themes: issues associated with population have a lot to do with limitation (of resources, space, time, choices, etc), therefore we have given ourselves similar limitations (of resources, space, time and design) in order to push against them creatively. For instance, the sound design in EARTH must come from the soundtrack of the Voyger Golden Record, a time capsule that NASA attached to the Voyager spacecrafts in 1977. Considering how expansive, global and complex the issues connected with population, we are considering our play as its own sort of imperfect time capsule, focusing on personal stories, observations and experiences from people around the world as well as native and foreign citizens of NYC. 

Our company is made up of twenty local artists (many of whom are foreign-born) and dozens of artists from other countries including Romania, Australia, China, Japan and Denmark. We also have a handfull of scientific collaborators, some of whom will be performing with us. 

We began developing EARTH in 2012. In June 2014 we had our first work-in-progress showing for an audience. Now, we are raising funds for the next phase of EARTH's development, which will take place September 2-20 in Building 110 of Governor's Island, thanks to a Process Space grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.