Fukowski is getting a divorce. Bailey has a new girlfriend. ​Mehmed​ is going to Disney world. Mills just wants to sleep. ​MASSIVE ORDNANCE AIR BLAST​ is a play about the largest non-nuclear bomb in the American military’s arsenal and four soldiers sent to watch it explode. As they wait for the bomb to fall, they fantasize about going home, but not everyone is going back to the same home they left behind. Using dark humor and gritty realism, ​MASSIVE ORDNANCE AIR BLAST ​explores the relationship between violence, class, and masculinity through the context of the ​GBU-43/B​ MOAB, which was dropped over the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan in April of 2017. This new play asks: What does it mean for soldiers to go home when home feels just as foreign as the country they’re fighting against?

Content warning: This play-in-progress contains themes of violence and suicide, graphic content, and derogatory language.

A short talk back will follow the presentation to aid the writers in further development.

Written by Sarah Loucks

Story by Sarah Loucks and Matthew Spain

Directed by Jared J. Stein