Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying

by Jessica Huang

TRANSMISSIONS IN ADVANCE OF THE SECOND GREAT DYING tells an epic tale of grief and global warming through the intersecting lives of Earth’s human and non-human inhabitants in 2045. Katrina and her unborn baby head north in search of snow; Hugo seeks purpose in a world without resources; and after a series of unnatural events, recently widowed Carla is swept into a cosmic relationship with an ageless being that...

TRANSMISSIONS IN ADVANCE OF THE SECOND GREAT DYING tells an epic tale of grief and global warming through the intersecting lives of Earth’s human and non-human inhabitants in 2045. Katrina and her unborn baby head north in search of snow; Hugo seeks purpose in a world without resources; and after a series of unnatural events, recently widowed Carla is swept into a cosmic relationship with an ageless being that challenges her understanding of time and extinction. Together with a young lynx and a swarm of locusts, their journeys become transmissions of hope and loss against the backdrop of planetary collapse.

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Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying

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  • Cara Hinh: Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying by Jessica Huang
    “

    I love this play.
    I think tears formed in my eyes around page 3.
    This play is a haunting vision of what climate change can look like from the perspective of us, human beings, the animals we share this planet with and an extraterrestrial being.
    This play could have so many different lives in different theatres/spaces.
    it is exciting and what i want in theatre.

    I love this play.
    I think tears formed in my eyes around page 3.
    This play is a haunting vision of what climate change can look like from the perspective of us, human beings, the animals we share this planet with and an extraterrestrial being.
    This play could have so many different lives in different theatres/spaces.
    it is exciting and what i want in theatre.

    ”
  • Lainie Vansant: Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying by Jessica Huang
    “

    This play is so haunting, ethereal, beautiful, and terrible all at once. It's a wake-up call in poetry, both heartbreaking and terrifying, but with a glimmer of hope in the end. There's lots of room for designers to be creative, for actors to dig in, and for audiences to be moved.

    This play is so haunting, ethereal, beautiful, and terrible all at once. It's a wake-up call in poetry, both heartbreaking and terrifying, but with a glimmer of hope in the end. There's lots of room for designers to be creative, for actors to dig in, and for audiences to be moved.

    ”

Development History

  • Workshop, Chance Theater , 2019
  • Reading, New York Theatre Workshop, 2018
  • Workshop, The Playwrights' Center, 2018
  • Residency, MacDowell Colony, 2018
  • Workshop, Mixed Blood Theatre, 2017
  • Commission, Mixed Blood Theatre,