A devastating explosion kills hundreds of people and collapses a building. Searchers are looking for survivors. A robot designed for such emergencies – The Goodness Robot – is dispatched to the scene of the crime. Her name is Shelley, and she is fearless by design.

Paul Allman’s plays include Metesky, Appendix, Dog in the Manger, Aloyssius Day, The Puritan, Kill the Vumpire, Otis Furioso, Bombers Row, Dig We Must, and Kenneth – What is the Frequency? Allman served as Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Screenwriting Fellow at the Sundance Institute, and Playwriting Fellow at the Playwrights Lab at the Sundance Institute. He has published two young adult novels and one literary novel with St. Martin’s Press, and his fiction has appeared in Paris Transcontinental, Harpers’s Magazine, Film Comment, and Witness, where his short story “We Have Time” won a Pushcart Prize. He has appeared sporadically and unpredictably as Captain Croaker, performing his sea-chanty opera “Break of Dawn” with the Mercantillers band at small venues in the city.

Round The Bend Theatre is a mobile theater company with a mission to encourage Hudson Valley playwrights and their work in development. Through the process of inclusive readings and reflection, new voices are nurtured for future work.