Synopsis:

"A billion years from now, when everything on Earth we've ever made has crumbled into dust, the Voyager record will still speak for us." Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

When the Voyager 1 spacecraft left the earth's atmosphere in 1977, it carried with it a golden phonograph record to be played by extraterrestrial beings. Less than nine months before launch, scientist Carl Sagan was asked by NASA to 'create a cultural Noah's Ark with a shelf life of hundreds of millions of years'. By the time this galactic album was cast into the cosmos it included: 116 pictures and diagrams, greetings, samples of the world's great music, as well as the brain waves of a young woman in love.

Directed by award-winning theatre director Edith Podesta and performed by NUS Stage, The Golden Record is a theatrical chronicle marking 40 years of humanity's greatest message into interstellar space.

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About NUS Stage
Previously known as Varsity Drama, NUS Stage is a young but bustling university-wide English language drama group that is constantly on the look-out for fresh talents and performance opportunities. The group cut their acting chops on award-winning works such as Life! Theatre Awards nominated play (wo)men by Faith Ng, Shiv Tandan's The Good, the Bad and the Sholay, and the collaborative piece City Night Songs.

NUS Stage focuses its interest on building stronger foundations for a closer-knit community of theatre practitioners within NUS. Facilitated by leading Singapore theatre practitioners, members of NUS Stage are given the opportunity to train on a regular basis and attend workshops and classes with a longer term view of developing a unique voice in Singapore theatre.

Since 2014, NUS Stage has launched Stage Two, a platform where members are given the opportunity to train under a holistic curriculum with a close-knit community of theatre practitioners within NUS. Stage Two aims to craft quality theatre productions, nurture capable and creative theatre-makers, and develop a unique voice in Singapore theatre.