Science Plays

Harriet Martineau: Dreams of Dancing

It’s 1844. Harriet Martineau (1802-76), internationally renowned radical thinker and prolific writer, has relocated from London to Tynemouth, where, suffering from an undisclosed illness, she is sequestered indoors.

Two Degrees

Emma Phelps is a paleoclimatologist, focusing on ice in Greenland. In drilling and studying ice core samples, she sees firsthand the symptoms of our changing planet, which makes the need to act all the more crucial and urgent.

Radium Girls

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage – until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease.

Pressure

June 1944: One man’s decision is about to change the course of history. Everything is in place for the biggest invasion known in Europe- D-Day. One last crucial question remains: Will the weather be clear?

The Earthworks

A journalist, Clare, travels to Switzerland to write an article about the opening of the Large Hadron Collider.

Girl in the Machine

This play follows the ordinary lives of Polly and Owen who work as a lawyer and doctor, respectively. Their ordinary lives change drastically when they discover a piece of technology that impacts the whole world.

The How and the Why

Evolution and emotion collide in Sarah Treem’s thought-provoking and sharp play about science, family, and survival of the fittest.

Bare Spaces

When the speaker addresses the audience, he/she describes the loneliness of our world. The speaker argues that with unity, we can save the world.

Appreciation

The speaker of this one-person show addresses the audiences and asks them to applaud after each environmental disaster that he discusses.

The Narcissism of Small Differences

When a young Gill is given three minutes to present his request for funds, he does not expect to be met by a Yangtze Finless Dolphin and a Cross River Gorilla. These two endangered species come as characters in Litwalk’s inspirational piece.

The Blue Puzzle

A father reminisces over the memories he made with his son figuring out jigsaw puzzles. While the father completes the puzzle, he realizes that there is a solution to the mass of pieces, just as there is a solution to save our planet.

Un-Curse

Mother Earth watches over a young woman as she sleeps. Unfortunately, Mother Earth has aged immensely due to the actions of humans. When the young woman wakes up, Mother Earths begs her to take care[…]

Oh How We Loved Our Tuna!

Through this one-person show, the speaker is addressing Tuna. He/She is talking in the distant future, after we have over-fished tuna to the point of extinction.

Kleenex

Through this play, a story of a mother and child is revealed to us. This young boy is carrying a disease that destroys the environment around him and his mother is unsure of how to[…]

Home/Range

Home/Range proves to be a rather unique play in its effort to highlight the difference between indigenous and invasive species.

We (Don’t) Deserve Nice Things

As a young brides prepares for her wedding, she uses crumpled newspapers as a replacement for flowers. She does this because she believes that one-time use items are destroying our global environment.

Gods of the Land!

This play follows a set of characters in a Ugandan village struggling with drought and crop loss. These characters are compared to two young women living in a busy city that complain about the constant[…]

Crossroads

When a families’ leather factory is shutdown by the EPA, the husband struggles to find hope. Meanwhile, the wife understands that shutting down the factory means protecting the beetles and for her, that’s important.

Sardines

After a recent trip to Beirut, a young woman questions how sea level increases and saltwater intrusion will change the quality of life for coastal communities all over the World.

The Burn of the Sun

Two women must evacuate their tribal land in Papa New Guinea because all water sources have been depleted. If they do not leave, the water company will force them out.

The Last Tree

In a small Pakistani village, locals fight to save a Peepal Tree. This religious tree has brought together followers of the Buddhist religion for generations; however, city workers have come to cut it down.

The Rubik’s Cube Solution

This play opens with a controller addressing a group of citizens regarding their ability to solve a Rubik’s Cube within a five-minute time frame. The repercussions of not solving the cube will be droughts and[…]

Pond Life

Pat and Harper, two frogs, stare at their pond and wonder whether it will ever be as healthy as it once was. They understand that pollution has led to the creation of algal blooms and[…]

New Michael

The play opens with a thought monologue of Michael describing his day in class where he was told that humans will not live past the year 2030 due to environmental degradation and pollution.

Start Where You Are

Parker enters Ames house, cussing about President Trump for his EPA budget cuts. These cuts have laid him and thirteen other employees off, but they also represent the loss of hope for institutional combats to[…]

Lily’s Porridge

This play is set in a drought stricken, African village. Debra has just returned from a foraging trip for baobab fruit but has unfortunately returned with nothing.

The Big Chief

Kevin, a Native American Indian, is extremely proud of his gas-guzzling SUV that he has named, “The Big Chief”. He crosses paths with a biker whom seems to do be doing nothing wrong.

Single Use

Val and Mitchell match on a dating site and decide to meet up at a local diner. Val quickly jumps into the discussion of global warming and sustainability.

For the Gulf Coast

This play forms a relationship between the effects of climate change and the way in which two lovers are dealing with those effects.

You Should Know Better

A husband and wife sit on their large sofa discussing plans for their upcoming weekend venture to a beach island. The husband informs the wife that the trip must be cancelled due to island flooding,[…]