When potentially deadly solar flares threaten to end all life on earth as we know it, it’s up to a whole cast of characters to save the day.

Watch as the conflict grows and the comedy becomes evermore ridiculous when the Northern Lehigh Little Theatre presents its fall play, “Attack! of the Killer Man from the Sun!”

Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday in the Northern Lehigh High School auditorium. Price of admission is $10.

Tickets can be purchased either at the door or ahead of time on the district’s website, www.nlsd.org.

Kayla Driscoll, director, explained that she selected the show “both because of and despite its newness. This is not a show that is to be expected, and it is not one that has been done anywhere else in the state of Pennsylvania.

“When attempting to select my shows this year, I was drawn to the licensing company of Uproar Theatrics, a place designed to celebrate new works and get them in the hands of students/communities all over quickly and efficiently,” Driscoll said. “This play is a love-letter to the cheesy, Sci-Fi B movies of old. Complete with colorful props, outlandish costumes, and absurd science fiction ‘rules’ to be followed.”

Driscoll described the plot.

“A humble announcer is your guide through this outrageous story, setting the stage for a scientist and the colorful cast of characters around him who must find the solution to a ‘potentially deadly’ space event that threatens earth,” she said. “Scientists, aliens, creatures, and of course the looming threat of the Sun take us all over the sleepy town of Earthville and to certain doom ... maybe?”

Driscoll said the students have taken extremely well to the show.

“As a director, this rehearsal process has been incredibly rewarding,” she said. “Because this is such a new piece of theatre, it became a very collaborative process.

“The students weren’t able to research or watch other groups perform this show, and it really gave them the opportunity to discover their characters and trust their own developing creative instincts. The dialogue in this show is not easy at all; it is full of purposeful tongue-twisters and repeating jokes and gags. For a chunk of this cast which is brand-new to the stage, it has definitely been a daunting task to work on something so outlandish and unfamiliar in the short amount of time that we rehearse together.”

The students include seniors Jackson Hunsicker, who portrays “The Announcer”; Joshua Weaber, “Lou Ion”; Susan Gilsbach, “Anne Ion”; Olivia Handwerk, “Susan Smiths”; Logan Galloway, “Alien #1”; Jalyn Lesher, “Alien #2”; and Abigail Peartree, “Killer Man From the Sun.”

Driscoll added “My hope is that audiences come to support this large cast in this brand-new, off-the-wall comedy.

“You’ll notice that there are a large number of students who are brand-new to theatre; they decided to try something new this year and it is something to be applauded and celebrated,” she said. “Shows like this - new works that celebrate casts of any size - allow us to feature both new faces and veterans to the stage, and the way that they have rallied together to uplift one another has been inspiring.”

Driscoll added “this show was a massive undertaking. The playwright, David Andrew Laws, wrote it in such a way to allow for the technicals to be as elaborate - or simplistic - as desired.

“We haven’t been a group to shy away from the technical demands before, and we threw ourselves full on into this project,” she said. “The work of Art Director Steve Shuey has added such an interesting layer of depth to make this really feel like those old movies we love so much.

“I believe that as it stands between cast and crew, I have about 17 high school seniors involved with this production. And while it’s a scary number to imagine for the future of the program, I believe it also a reflection of love and care that has been put into this program over the years during and post pandemic. Even the seniors who have shown up having never done theatre before I believe were so eager to create and express themselves that they have elevated the standards of this program for years of younger students to follow.”