Told through the frame of a Hollywood film set, the play tackles how humans are supposed to deal with the magnitude of climate crisis, even as their lives become weighed down with personal drama. What if we covered the climate crisis like we did the start of the second world war? After she was granted the commission several years ago, she feel uncertain of how she would write a play about climate crisis. “I wasn’t sure what my approach to climate change was gonna be because it’s a very daunting thing to write about or even think about. But its message is clear: the problems of our days are trivial and sophomoric, compared to the climate crisis at large.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2019 07:00 UTC