This Motherless Earth is set in a small desert town, in a future where women can no longer carry children and parenthood is regulated through state-issued synthetic infants. When an Auditor arrives to observe a couple’s eligibility to receive one of these children, the present fractures with memories of a childhood shaped by a mass illness. The development process will center on the play’s atmospheric weather events—sudden heatwaves, storms, flash flooding, and drastic temperature shifts—using projection and visual design to create recurring environmental motifs that reflect the story’s emotional and political climate.