A born dreamer, our unlikely hero appears to emerge from the womb against the background of the first moon landing, with his eyes already searching the skies.
Nothing will dissuade or distract him from his celestial goal. Not his earthbound friends and colleagues persuading him to party - while they might be in the gutter he is looking at the stars. Nor the scorn that meets his seemingly lunatic plans for a moon based utopia. Not even that he gets asthmatic merely at ground level.
His hitch-hiking journey to a mountain top with the support of a preacher, an explorer and a spaceman will need hidden strengths to conquer new heights.
The play takes inspiration from a book of the same title written by Bishop Francis Godwin in the 1620s. It also looks at the achievements of artic expeditions in conquering the seemingly impossible and borrows from movies, such as the 1950 "Destination Moon". While using these as a platform the narrative doesn't mirror any of the plots.
The physical elements, which are sometimes just silly, occasionally hit the mark but some links are protracted and break the flow. The set is an economical series of jagged, angular shapes which provides the screens for shadow puppets and visual theatrical tricks and a background to the cast's clowning.
The childlike playfulness which served them well when portraying, well, children actually, in their previous production "A Strange Wild Song" sits less easily with these grown up (if young at heart) characters or in flirting with bigger ideas such as faith.
If you haven't seen Rhum and Clay before you may be beguiled by their good natured approach, but compared to their previous work it represents one giant leap backwards, not to be unkind.
Show times
31 July - 25 (not 12 or 20) August (not 12 or 20), 3.50 pm.
Ticket prices
£10.50 (£9.50) to £12.50 (£11.50)