'I'm awake. I'm alive. Everything's real and I love you.'
Lin, an astronaut, speeds towards a distant planet. He's on a pioneering solo mission to create a new home for humankind.
His only human contact is an exchange of voice messages with his lover, Silas, back on Earth. But thanks to the laws of relativity, Silas is ageing so much faster than Lin. Days for the astronaut will be decades for the lover left behind.
As disaster befalls the spacecraft and planet Earth falls apart, Silas and Lin's love is tested to the limit.
Timothy X Atack's DELAY is a love story. A suspenseful, heartwrenching yet hopeful queer sci-fi stage play about saying what you mean and saying goodbye. It was first performed at Bristol Old Vic in 2025.
| ISBN: | 9781839044366 |
| Publication date: | 26th June 2025 |
| Author: | Tim Atack |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 88 pages |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
| Genres: |
Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards) Plays, playscripts |
'I'm awake. I'm alive. Everything's real and I love you.'
Lin, an astronaut, speeds towards a distant planet. He's on a pioneering solo mission to create a new home for humankind.
His only human contact is an exchange of voice messages with his lover, Silas, back on Earth. But thanks to the laws of relativity, Silas is ageing so much faster than Lin. Days for the astronaut will be decades for the lover left behind.
As disaster befalls the spacecraft and planet Earth falls apart, Silas and Lin's love is tested to the limit.
Timothy X Atack's DELAY is a love story. A suspenseful, heartwrenching yet hopeful queer sci-fi stage play about saying what you mean and saying goodbye. It was first performed at Bristol Old Vic in 2025.
Delay features in the following genres: Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Plays, playscripts
Delay is available in Paperback
Delay was written by Tim Atack and published by Nick Hern Books
Delay has 88 pages
Yes it is part of NHB Modern Plays series
£9.89