'23:59:' A Collection of Short Plays Addressing the Climate Crisis

The cosmic calendar according to cosmologist, Carl Sagan compresses the last 14 billion years into a single calendar year.

If the Big Bang took place on January 1 at midnight, the current moment maps onto the end of December 31 just before midnight — 23:59; our current place on the “cosmic calendar.”

Mónica Sánchez directs a collection of seven plays by diverse playwrights from across the country with seven student actors in a production dedicated to using recycled, upcycled, found, and previously owned materials as the scenic and costume design elements for this production.

About the plays:

• A revelation from a president who finds herself on the wrong side of history…
• A math lesson on Mars…
• A climatologist and a botanist fall in love…
• The last polar bear…
• A tent revival during the dust bowl…
• A rhino and a koala trapped in a diorama…
• Life and death and two gallons of water…