Rusted Stars

A science fiction musical: long ago people left an uninhabitable earth to make a life in the stars. That sort of worked, but after centuries the infrastructure of their colonies is in disrepair and standards of living are crumbling. Then one day they receive a transmission from earth: could it be worth returning? Could it be a home for humanity once again? The investigators find there a primitive agrarian society led by the young Queen Amara, absolute ruler of a feudal society and the figurehead of the Earth Mother religion. Will she and her people be prepared to share the only planet they’ve known, with the people who once abandoned it?

Noha Shahwan’s Prologue Productions is responsible. An independent UAE-based production company founded just last year but calling on many years of experience in theatre, films, TV and music, Prologue did the entertaining Will You Marry (With) Me at the Junction this summer, and was also active in Short + Sweet 2023. Prologue says Rusted Stars will be the first original musical play to be produced in the UAE.

The idea and production is by Rohan K Jain; Tariq Abouzeid directs; the score is by Caio Kehyayan, book by Terry Newman, lyrics by Newman and Ty Christian.

There are further performances at 8pm on 9 December and at 2.30 and 8pm on 10 December.