Leaving Planet Earth

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Old Earth has nothing left for us, and so it is time for a new beginning. Cross galaxies, traverse light years and find yourself in a world where you can be the centre of your own universe. Welcome to New Earth. Never look back. Vela, the revered and celebrated architect of this new society, has recently been avoiding her public duties in favour of visiting the Old Earth Museum and the company of its Security Guard. As the final migrants arrive, she is becoming increasingly obsessed by her memories, and questions are growing about her sanity. Leaving Planet Earth is a site-responsive promenade production on an epic scale. Tracing the story of humanitys first migration into space, it asks fundamental questions about our connection to this planet. Should we leave this world, and if so, who will endure and at what cost

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A haunting sci-fi epic that purports to take us on a journey from our own, ravaged planet to the paradisiacal colony of New Earth * Time Out *
Part of the beauty of Catrin Evans's and Lewis Hetherington's production is the way it suggests how little we learn from our past behaviour * Guardian *
The audience of Leaving Planet Earth - have left behind an environmentally exhausted planet, bringing with them a hope for the future as well as fond memories of the old place * Theatre Scotland *
Leaving Planet Earth is a wonderful concept that is meticulously executed * The Stage *
Edinburgh-based theatre company Grid Iron takes technology into the far future, imagining a time when we have abandoned Old Earth and arrived on a new planet where we can be the centre of our own universe * Edinburgh Reporter *
Tracing the story of humanity's first migration into space, it asks fundamental questions about our connection to this planet * Edinburgh International Festival *
A futuristic study of the sort of social control that is becoming endemic in the world right now * Herald Scotland *

Author Bio

Lewis Hetherington is an associate artist of Analogue having co-written and performed in their first three shows: Mile End and Beachy Head, and 2401 Objects. He is an associate artist with Imaginate, which has afforded him the chance to undertake research with Sense Scotland, exploring the creative possibilities of making theatre with and for young deaf blind adults. Lewis has lots of experience making theatre for and with young people, through working with companies including Starcatchers, Visible Fictions, RSAMD Dramaworks, Traverse and National Theatre of Scotland. Catrin Evans writing credits include Demons and the Jean-Jacques Rousseau show at A Play, A Pie and A Pint, and We Had Song which was supported to a rehearsed reading at The Traverse through Stella Quines. She has also co-written and directed all of the shows created by A Moments Peace Theatre Company, for whom she is the Artistic Director. She is currently directing AJ Taudevins Some Other Mother, which will be touring Scotland in 2013.