Ten-year-old Georgie lives in a house that was supposed to be underwater, that is sinking, that has already sunk, and that soon will sink for good.

The Party at the Edge of the World follows Georgie and a gaggle of ghosts, parents, and friends as they navigate what it means to live life on the brink: of ecological disaster, time, magic, and loss. Presented in a site-specific format, this is an original play written and directed by Liz Woolford & Michayla Robertson-Pine about childhood, togetherness, and how we embrace both grief and joy in the face of the massively unthinkable.

The Party is a play in-development, born out of a search for live performance that reckons with the the largest questions of our socio-ecological era in personal and intimate ways. The play was incubated in a Wesleyan student forum, "Ecological Disasters: Investigation Through Performance," taught by Liz Woolford & Michayla Robertson-Pine in Spring '21. Writing continued through the summer with the support of a Wesleyan College of the Environment grant, and was finalized for this fall performance through workshops with the Party's tight-knit team of actors and designers.

Thank you for joining us at the edge of it all.