But I didn’t expect to find out what I did – that Flat Earthers, and probably other conspiracy theorists – are quite simply incredibly lonely. Flat Earth, it turned out, became the obvious choice through which we could tell that story. Find out more The Shocking Truth About Flat Earth will be performed at 2:05pm at Pleasance Dome from 5th – 30th August. In one, slightly extreme, case, we saw a post from a mother who had started homeschooling her daughter with flat earth children’s books. Sargent’s search itself reveals that Flat Earth was not the spark that illuminated him all those years ago; it was simply the answer to a lifelong search of belonging.