About the Play

Dramedy. 30-40 minutes. 2 females, 1 male, 1 any gender. Suitable for high school and older performers, and middle school and older audiences.

First produced by Pygmalion Productions at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival.

The author grants productions pre-approval to make cuts to meet time limits and community standards regarding profanity and obscenity for Texas UIL and other one-act competitions.

Synopsis

In the few hours before the Earth is destroyed by a gamma-ray burst, a family of four prepares for the end in vastly different ways. With time on the verge of running out, the four of them must grapple with their personal history if they're going to come together for one last project—assembling Mom's time capsule.

"For a play about the end of the world, what stays with you afterward isn't the apocalypse at all, it's the small, ordinary stuff the family keeps reaching for underneath it. ... The verdict: a script with real, unforced warmth at its center...built around a genuinely tender idea worth seeing through." - Keolanani Kinghorn, Rhetorical Review