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Callisto 5

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  1w, 2m

Alan Ayckbourn

Eight years of macaroni and cheese for breakfast, lunch and supper... It's enough to drive a boy crazy - until a new, unexpected, and rather dangerous creature arrives on Callisto 5.

Callisto 5

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  • Cast Size
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    1w, 2m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Theatre for Young Audiences

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For eight years, young Jem has sat in space station Callisto 5, patiently awaiting the return of his parents. Eight years... with only Damaris the robot nanny and the disembodied voice of Iris the computer for company.
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    Alan Ayckbourn

    Alan Ayckbourn

    A playwright and theatre director, to date Alan Ayckbourn has written 89 plays – Family Album attracted four-star reviews when it premiered in September 2022 at the Stephen Joseph, where nearly all his plays are first staged.

    However, this year he will stage his 88th play Welc ...

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