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 a follow up to “Dead People Are Liking Things On Facebook,” which was presented at Guelph Fringe Festival in 2023.