Astrological disturbances split asteroids apart, and new smaller worlds hurtle into each other’s orbits. Loved ones are wrenched from one another, old animosities arise, and these asteroidal inhabitants soon forget they once lived as one world. Mass amnesia buries their shared history, and it seems impossible that these estranged neighbors ever coexisted peacefully. Will they now be able to reach across borders and share a world of difference? How can you deal with aliens when you feel alienated yourself?
A CHRONICLE OF THE MADNESS OF SMALL WORLDS pairs two short stories by eminent three-time Obie-winning playwright Mac Wellman, adapted for the stage by director Elena Araoz. Each story tells a fantastic and emotional tale of the imagined inhabitants of real asteroids in the asteroid belt. Wellman’s hysterical verbal acrobatics lay bare the madness of our own small world.
