An award-winning, creatively accessible adaptation of Naomi Foyle’s critically acclaimed eco-science fantasy quartet The Gaia Chronicles, ASTRA sets our future on a burning planet centre stage – urging audiences to believe that, together, humanity can rise to the existential challenge of our times. 

Birthed as ASTRA (2022), a multimedia theatre piece designed and directed by Raven Kaliana of Puppet (R)Evolution and winner of the 2022 Brighton Fringe ONCA Green Curtain Award, the ASTRA project has now entered an exciting new stage. Returning to her roots in Canadian theatre, Naomi Foyle has joined forces with celebrated director Peter Hinton-Davis, Order of Canada, with whom she first worked on the Dora Award-winning HUSH (Toronto, 1990). Together with Hassan Mahamdallie (Dramaturg, UK) and Isobel Hawson (Independent Theatre Consultant, UK), Naomi and Peter aim to find producing partners for a large-scale production of ASTRA: THE EPIC.

In Summer 2023, Naomi Foyle was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant to visit Peter Hinton-Davis and meet his theatre colleagues in Ontario. Encouraged by this trip, Naomi has now written a first draft of ASTRA ORDOTT, the first play in a trilogy to also include ROOK SONG and STAINED LIGHT.

Read more about ASTRA: THE EPIC on the new project’s website, here.