The Migration Play Cycle is an epic map of a play linking the world’s migration patterns to the daily transactions of our lives, inviting us to imagine a new relationship to human value by first unpacking what we value. An ambitious trans-local work researched across diasporic communities, The Migration Play Cycle centers local concerns into global contexts, offering a new theatrical platform for exploring migration and the global economy. Non-linear in form and Brechtian in value system, wherever audiences are on the map, economic interconnection means daily decisions impact people across the street, across town and across the world. By bringing theatricality to facts and figures, by entering border towns and heartland supermarkets, this play invokes a planet on the move and our daily impact on it. This theatrical experiment aims to be the first ever-evolving, cyclically structured play. Built as a series of interchangeable seasons (Summer, Winter, Wildfire) the play can expand and contract, be organized around new locations, and be unique to each production, with bespoke scenes written for new locales. Building upon a network of global theatrical partners, live/local productions would cross-pollinate with an immersive theatrical web platform where communities could see their stories within larger global patterns. Audiences could follow the play over years, becoming part of an evolving story, much like migration itself. How will we understand a planet on the move and our impact on it? Can theater makers move out of an exclusively empathy-centered storytelling, into one where value is recognized regardless of what we feel? Tackling the subject of migration through economics disrupts the empathy-driven model of Western theater by demanding we focus on our connection to migration itself, not the marketplace of migrants’ heart-wrenching stories. Especially as we approach a time when all populations must confront not only global migration, but their own.