This blog includes a series of reflections on productions attended by the wonderful Dartmouth students on the Foreign Study Program in London during the summer of 2018.  The posts below include reflections on a wide range of styles and genres: the immersive Sounds & Sorcery at the Vaults, a Spanish-language adaptation of Carmen, a site-specific work at the Tower of London, the bloody Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh, Othello at the Globe, the new plays One for Sorrow at Royal Court Upstairs and Julie at the National, among many others. These sixteen postings reflect only a percentage of the many productions that the students attended during those nine intense weeks. The concept of “small planets” is drawn from Elinor Fuchs’s influential essay on dramatic criticism, “Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask a Play.”