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.
"'Rather lovely... a play cloaked in fantasy, space travel and a future world torn apart by pandemics and other end-of-days scenarios... But at its heart, this play is a love story'"
The Stage
"'Deeply relatable... a subtly profound exploration into grief, hope and heartbreak... The final few scenes are truly devastating'"
All That Dazzles
"'A moving exploration of the heart, with a sci-fi twist... charts an interstellar story suspended between wit, tragedy and a subtly harrowing inevitability... a great play'"
