A.D. Players premieres a play about the Apollo 8 mission and what it did for the humans on Earth. ad_players
When Jayme McGhan was first approached about writing a story about Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to orbit the moon, he hesitated. It wasn't that he didn't know how to write plays — he's written lots of them. He just wasn't as well versed in the particulars of a highpoint in the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
"Kind of on the back side of the pandemic we find ourselves in a very similar situation to 1968, a world kind of sitting on the edge a little bit with certainly major movements in civil rights and ethical treatment of American citizens. It mirrors 1968 almost perfectly," says McGhan, who also, ironically enough, is taking over as Executive Artistic director of A.D.
The idea for the play came after Speck had taken his family to NASA and saw an exhibit about the Apollo 8 mission, McGhan says."Specifically what drew him was the reading of Genesis from space on Christmas Eve, reading the first ten verses of Genesis. That was the initial impetus for him to start thinking about how could we dramatize this."
"I became far more interested in the results of what the Apollo 8 mission meant to everyday people around the globe," McGhan says."It was the most watched broadcast in history at that time. People tuned in every night, across the globe."
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