Technology

You have been chosen as a candidate for deep-space travel. Your destination: the nearest known habitable planet, trillions of miles from Earth. The trip will be long, and the spacecraft's life support systems can only accommodate one human being. But you will not be alone.

The Circle Table explores several vignettes threading characters and relationships via FaceTime/phone calls and asks: How does digital communication hamper or enhance analog components of life like love, family, depression, self-exploration and fulfillment?

Tobin Mitnick dives into the grotesque and hilarious world of online grifters and con men with sketch and stand-up in order to show us that the game may have changed, but the players are all still here. But the show grows darker as Mitnick answers a lingering question: can you con yourself?

‪A couple of colonists on their way to a distant planet were awakened from their cryo-sleep years ahead of schedule. Now they’re forced to spend every moment of every day trapped together in a tiny capsule. They have to find a way to get past their mutual loathing to work together so they don’t die.