“This is what I remember
My heart squeezing shut and this place –
The lonely life of a lost lander”

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Enter the wreckage of a woman, who for twenty-something years has not ventured outside. She is a shut-in. Driven indoors by her grief and fear of human contact she has surrounded herself with the things that provide her comfort – cassette tapes, photographs, mandarins and her collection of jigsaw puzzles. She is obsessed with the 1969 moon landing and watches it over and over again as a signpost of hope and possibility. She is stuck in time, chased by the ghosts of her past until an inevitable calling arrives.

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Originally a solo physical theatre piece in 2016, in 2019 The Astronaut is being translated and made into a short film, celebrating the courage of the human spirit and its capacity to change. This is an intimate tale that looks at the choices we make and the seemingly impossible act of letting go.