Author/actor Stephanie Vlahos gives a performance that blurs author with character, thought with creation, fear with love as she embodies the character John K Mercury, an accidental astronaut who wants off the planet and believes hitching a ride on a mission to Mars is the only way. Left to his thoughts in the vast expanse of outer space, Mercury contemplates existence and just like the pied piper, he gathers followers along his way. 'I am a motorcyclist in a hailstorm recklessly speeding by the grace of a slipstream.'