The Offer

Grace was fired from NASA after the shuttle program was dismantled in 2009 along with 30,000 other astrophysicist and engineers. Since then, she has been working odd jobs and more recently, at Virgin. But Grace is special. Her work is starting to change things for the space industry, making the prospect of human space exploration a dream more tangible than she ever imagined
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The Offer

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  • Grace Everett:
    11 Oct. 2022
    So much information packed into 9 pages, and yet, this play doesn't feel heavy-handed or dense in the slightest! Two complex characters with a wonderful push/pull dynamic, combined with Poynton's excellent sense of worldbuilding, creates a play that is quick to read but impossible to forget.
  • Jonathan O'Neill:
    6 May. 2019
    Poynton packs multiple gut punches into this timely short about the prices of greatness. Grace is a wry, intelligent, and immediately respectable protagonist; in just nine pages, Poynton creates great drama by facing her with numerous thought-provoking dilemmas.
  • Paul Donnelly:
    5 Apr. 2019
    How can a simple job interview be so gripping? In The Offer, Bella Poynton provides her accomplished protagonist Grace with an escalating sequence of professional and personal dilemmas courtesy of the man who fired her from NASA five long years earlier. We are also forced to confront with Grace the real human cost of advanced space exploration. Fascinating intellectual conundrums abound!

Development History

  • Workshop
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    Samuel French OOB Festival -Finalist
    ,
    2015
  • Workshop
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    National Ten-Minute Play Contest (Heideman Prize) - Finalist
    ,
    2015

Production History

  • Professional
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    Alleyway Theatre Inc.
    ,
    2018

Awards

Finalist
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Sam French OOB Festival
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Sam French
,
2015