la grande évasion

IA#73545 is a fugitive from justice, suspected of crimes of espionage, a saboteur of intergalactic military products, with a reputation for collusion with known intergalactic terrorists and human drug cartels. She has commandeered the Capella Comet as her escape — an artificially engineered colony, created in a joint-venture between the intergalactic military and her father’s company. With the help of the comet’s information avatar, Janai reviews her father’s old recordings, mourns her mother’s recent death, updates the comet’s technology and ponders her next move across the universe.The jumping off point for this play was Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, where the protagonist records musings on the year past after listening to recordings from years earlier. La Grande Évasion revolves around this ritual, but shows the next generation reviewing the recordings. While a significant departure to Beckett’s work, this play borrows details (sprinkled throughout) as well as some structural aspects and interwoven narrative.