Lonely Planet

by Steven Dietz

Directed by Melissa Firlit

November 14 - December 8, 2024

In the early 1990s, down an old city street, inside a small map store, a pile of chairs begins to form. Two best friends, Jody and Carl, manage the ever-growing mountain of chairs while taking care of each other and navigating the dark reality that looms in the outside world- a reality Carl faces in their neighborhood everyday and one Jody is afraid to see. A funny and heartwarming story of friendship, love, and survival during one of the world’s hardest moments, Lonely Planet continues to show us that “Friendship, not technology, is the only thing capable of showing us the enormity of the world” -Steven Dietz, playwright.