This skit is my response to the six line prompt “Am I Being Hazed?”, from the TheaterWorks (New Milford) Playwrights Workshop back in 2019.
This recording was generated during the Covid19 pandemic by the Archipelago Virtual Theater. Individual performers voiced their parts separately, offline, and the tracks were edited together into a single performance. The process was iterated three times, ultimately allowing the actors to respond to cues from the other actors who were themselves responding to what other actors were saying.
Dr. Markum, whose planetary research has caused a bit of a stir, learns something unexpected about Planetary Science, and is forced to make a choice.