In 1975, an artist boards a sailboat and disappears. In 2020, a poet walks out his front door, never to be seen again. And in 2022, an actor steps onto a plane hoping it will crash.

“The Drake Equation” is a lecture performance about artists who die in the middle of making projects, leaving behind an unfinished work. The show weaves through themes of alien life, suicide, mid-60s pop music, mid-aughts hip-hop, air travel, boating accidents, the planet Mars, and the persistent question of whether art is worth dying for.

Dubbed "extremely grim but funny" by one reviewer, the show serves as part two in a three-part series, which began with the award-winning piece “Dead People Are Liking Things On Facebook.”