Jan 22, 2021 - Feb 06, 2021
After years alone in a damaged spaceship with only the artificial intelligence bot for company, imagine the Operator's excitement when an unknown caller reaches her far out in the Milky Way galaxy. Now, imagine that caller is a relentless young canvasser with one goal: acquire her absentee vote for his candidate. This is reality for the unnamed Operator in Julia Doolittle's award-winning play The Absentee, as she finds herself both running from and pining for connection - all while trying to maintain her sanity in the face of persistent callers, the mysterious code of her ship's A.I and the darkness of deep space.