←Recommendations of Rocket Yourself to the Moon

This mixture of business lingo-laced intrigue and sci-fi satire of megacorporations (megalocorporations?) makes for a wonderful ride. It is overladen with standout moments, from the bizarre conversations emanating from the factory floor, to the inane jargon mouthed from the upper corporate echelons, through to a gut-bustingly funny list of a drug's side effects. Thoroughly entertaining from start to finish.

Dark, hilarious, and inventive, "Rocket Yourself to the Moon" is a thrill ride from start to finish. It is unapologetic, brutal and wildly theatrical, all while giving the audience a message without hitting them over the head with it. I love this play so so much.

ROCKET YOURSELF TO THE MOON’s premise—a mega-corporation’s quest for “full market penetration” leads to the destruction of the planet—should be absurd. What’s truly horrifying is just how close to reality Charlotte Lang’s existential nightmare of a play hews.

The playwright tempers her scathing indictment of capitalist myopia with surreal touches (tap dancing minions! Never ending drug side effects! A moldy rat-cow mascot costume!) and pitch-perfect corporate gibberish (“the Marketing Director works closely with the Director of Marketing,”) bristling with Brechtian flair. A hilarious and terrifying satire of late stage capitalism.

Wickedly funny, bitingly political, written with a gleeful eye on the theatricality of the corporate nightmarish dystopia we live in and the best way to present it to the shareholders of Sandra's Old Timey Yoghurt Shoppe - a global conglomerate with plans for extending their corporate domination to the moon. For a start.

I had the pleasure of seeing a reading of Charlotte Lang's play at the 2023 Valdez Theater Conference and there is so much that I am impressed with and delighted by. This play is so funny, so theatrically exciting and full of fresh surprises. The play is incredibly smart for what it reveals about the power systems in which we live and about who we are as humans impossibly trying to live in these systems. Excellent, smart, thrilling, fun writing that has great size, clarity, and theatricality.

Biting and hysterical, Lang takes unerring aim at the designs and delusions of late-stage capitalism with a zippy, delirious, demented vaudeville. Medical disclaimers will never be the same.

A wild, wacky, icy satire of corporate subservience and what happens when a company moves far away from its mission and its origins. Wildly hilarious one minute and devastating the next, often simultaneously!