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Space Girl Has Landed!

Space Girl: A Cosmic Comedy by the award-winning playwright Frances Koncan is a hilarious exploration of colonialism, digital culture, and the ways we wield power. We follow Lyra – the first person born on the moon – who is living comfortably as a beloved social media influencer. On her twenty-first birthday, two disasters strike: the birth of a rival “baby influencer” and the discovery of an enormous asteroid that may just destroy Earth (and all of her social media followers). Forced to flee the moon during a meteor shower, Lyra unexpectedly finds herself on Earth, a strange new world where she must decide what matters more: her personal dreams of social media fame or the safety of humanity as a whole.

An excerpt:

“THE VANGUARD
You’re in so deep you can’t even see it.
At least Noah knew what he was doing.
Noah, he knew building a city on the moon would come with
a cost.
The cost of destroying the Earth.
But he was greedy and made that choice anyway.
And now Nikolaj.
He knows he could save the Earth if he wanted to.
But he’s too much of a coward to do that.
So he’s going to colonize Mars instead.
Tell me, former @SpaceGirl …
What choices have you made recently?

LYRA
That’s a lot of smack coming from a guy who basically does the
exact same job as me.

THE VANGUARD
No one controls me.

LYRA
And no one controls me anymore either.
Yesterday was my birthday.

THE VANGUARD
Happy birthday.

LYRA
Thanks.

THE VANGUARD
Do you want a cake?
Or a pony?

LYRA
What I want is to charge my phone and go home.

THE VANGUARD
Go home …
Back to the moon …
Create more content …
Get back to number one …
And leave the rest of us here on Earth to die.

LYRA
What do you want me to do?
I can’t stop the asteroid.

THE VANGUARD
Asteroid?

LYRA
Never mind!!!
Are you going to let me charge my phone or not?”

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