URANUS is a play about waste.

William Herschel is furiously building (and destroying) telescopes so that he might get closer to his beloved new discovery. Two young backpackers are mysteriously transported to a planet made entirely of Earth's garbage. A derelict called Gaea searches among piles of her treasured trash for a waste rock that has the power to restart the world. Told with physical poetry and moronic humor, URANUS is a hodgepodge of history, myth and make-believe.

URANUS premiered in June 2008 with Upright Egg Theatre Company (St. Paul, MN.) It was a semi-finalist for the 2009 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.

In URANUS, the audience is our set designer! Our audience members brought us their unwanted stuff to build our world. Here are a few of the things you helped add to our set:

• something from another world
• something you regret having bought
• a memory from childhood
• something that makes music
• something that disgusts you
• the most beautiful thing that you never want to see again
• "this is me all over"
• something that breaks your heart
• something scandalous
• a secret
• something green
• something that isn't what it seems
• smaller than a breadbox... or just a breadbox
• light as a feather, stiff as a board
• a horcrux
• something utterly useless
• something that could be an alien spaceship
• something that could be prehistoric
• something that's just funny
• a microcosm
• something undefinable
• something that still has the tag
• a synecdoche
• something that doesn't belong
• "i'll never let go"
• something homemade
• something multi-functional
• something baroque
• "i have no idea what this is or how it got here"
• wisdom itself