Available to watch here from 8 Oct 2020 19:30 until 31 Dec 2020 23:59

“As the heroic orchestral swells of Sophie Cotton’s score give way to unsettling electronic pulses, the playwright thrusts us into the cabin of Apollo 13, where three astronauts must abandon their hopes of a moon landing in order to survive.” Guardian

TOP PICK: New York Times, The Times, Daily Express

★★★★ Guardian

★★★★ Telegraph

★★★★ Daily Mail

★★★★ WHATSONSTAGE

‘Gripping… A mastery of slow-burn tension’ The Guardian

‘Strong acting across the board and mesmerising, at times out-of-this-world, visuals’ The Telegraph

‘One giant leap for a theatre… it’s a stunning feat.’ Daily Mail

‘Astonishing… the industry a benchmark for the standard of online theatrical content’ A Younger Theatre

Playwright Torben Betts

Directed by Alastair Whatley & Charlotte Peters

Design by David Woodhead

Sound Design Dominic Bilkey

Music by Sophie Cotton

Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. 

77 hours into their mission they lose all communications with Earth as they pass around the dark side of the Moon. Further from home than mankind has ever been, in total darkness and facing impossible odds of survival the Astronauts confront themselves and each other.

Marking 50 years since the launch of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, and based, in part, on actual transcripts, this brand-new online play is a captivating re-telling of one of the greatest space stories of all time.

From the creative team behind the critically acclaimed lockdown production of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong Online and Watching Rosie, Torben Betts’ The Dark Side of The Moon explores the outer limits of faith, hope and the power of the human spirit.