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Launch Day (Love Stories from the Year 2108)

  • Michael Higgins
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, The Future
  • 3M, 3F, 1M or F
  • ISBN: LN6

A brilliant engineer has decided to leave our ailing planet on a mission to colonize another world. Her ex-boyfriend believes the Earth -- and their relationship -- can be saved, but first he must convince her to stay...

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: The Future
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! AACT NewPlayFest (2022)
A brilliant engineer has decided to leave our ailing planet on a mission to colonize another world. Her ex-boyfriend believes the Earth -- and their relationship -- can be saved, but first he must convince her to stay... and hope his new robotic arm doesn't ruin everything.

Told through a series of two-actor scenes, Launch Day (Love Stories from the Year 2108) follows six couples struggling with relationship issues in a high-tech but perilous future. Other characters include a starving artist who has agreed to let an advertising firm insert a computer chip in her head; a devoted zookeeper fighting to protect Sandy the pandaroo, her favorite genetically engineered creature; and a lonely construction worker enlisted to help a desperate woman with a task that may or may not be murder -- killing her AI supervisor. 

Included in the Collection: American Association of Community Theatre AACT NewPlayFest Winning Plays: Volume 5 (2022)

  • Casting: 3M, 3F, 1M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting

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A brilliant engineer has decided to leave our ailing planet on a mission to colonize another world. Her ex-boyfriend believes the Earth -- and their relationship -- can be saved, but first he must convince her to stay... and hope his new robotic arm doesn't ruin everything.

Told through a series of two-actor scenes, Launch Day (Love Stories from the Year 2108) follows six couples struggling with relationship issues in a high-tech but perilous future. Other characters include a starving artist who has agreed to let an advertising firm insert a computer chip in her head; a devoted zookeeper fighting to protect Sandy the pandaroo, her favorite genetically engineered creature; and a lonely construction worker enlisted to help a desperate woman with a task that may or may not be murder -- killing her AI supervisor. 

$19.95