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by August Hakvaag

Play, 3f

In the small southwest town of Loving, New Mexico, Dell has a mission, and her morbidly curious neighbor Mara is along for the ride: to tell the people of the far-flung future that there is a dangerous store of nuclear waste hidden below the ground. But how do you craft a message so universal any culture could understand? As the two grow closer over the course of a school project, circumstances and priorities in each of their lives begin to shift, forcing them to choose what they carry forward into their futures and what they leave behind. How do two young queer people navigate finding themselves? What marks do we leave on the world around us?

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by August Hakvaag

Play, 3f

In the small southwest town of Loving, New Mexico, Dell has a mission, and her morbidly curious neighbor Mara is along for the ride: to tell the people of the far-flung future that there is a dangerous store of nuclear waste hidden below the ground. But how do you craft a message so universal any culture could understand? As the two grow closer over the course of a school project, circumstances and priorities in each of their lives begin to shift, forcing them to choose what they carry forward into their futures and what they leave behind. How do two young queer people navigate finding themselves? What marks do we leave on the world around us?

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About the Author

August Hakvaag (they/them) is an award-winning butch theatre artist based in Philadelphia, PA. They have worked internationally as an actor, director, and playwright. Plays include As I Was, Not As I Am, Acute Exposure, But Not Uncle Vanya, and The Superconductor. They were a Princess Grace Fellowship Award semi-finalist, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee, and winner of the EMOS Ecodrama Award. They are a member of the PlayPenn Foundry program, and a producer and founding member of Aporia Artists Collective. Their plays have been developed at Moxie Arts NY, Philadelphia Theatre Company, PlayPenn, Impulse Control Freaks, 90mil / The Palace Collective, Richmond Triangle Players, 24 Hour Plays, and Lemonade Stand.