Performed: Fall 2016
Director: Mason Rosenthal
Performer: Dani Solomon ’13
The Medium Theater Company’s One Way Redis a meditation on why we look to other planets to solve our earthbound problems. Based on accounts of applicants to join Mars One, a real-life non-profit dedicated to establishing the first human colony (and reality TV show) on Mars, One Way Red is a solo journey from a bedroom floor in Waltham, MA to the surface of the Red Planet. The show follows the story of a young woman, played by Dani Solomon ‘13, willing to put faith in a mission with an improbable chance for success. Our anti-heroine, awash in a vast desert of empty NetFlix sleeves, broadcasts her reality TV confessionals back to Earth in monologues, folk songs, and movement.
