Before I leave for lunastrasse (Shtetl morning)

Written and performed by Emma Tattenbaum-Fine

Directed and sound designed by Preston Martin

 a full length audio play with music and soundscaping

The year is 2081. Emma, a wise, spry, elder-millennial, is 95 years old and preparing to leave for the first human settlement on the moon. The risk is enormous, but the earth is no longer comfortably habitable, and the chance to be part of something historic beckons. Newness is hard to bear, but Emma, with her storied past, has come to accept that everything is fleeting and change, the only constant. 

In the last two hours in her Brighton Beach apartment she welcomes your company. Making fraught peace with her life's journey and its uncertain meaning, her past lives, ghosts, and memories guide her forward as her life on earth ends and a brave new world begins.