The Donmar Warehouse and Theatr Clwyd are to stage Steve Waters’ The Contingency Plan, a pair of plays first performed at the tiny Bush Theatre in west London in 2009. He wrote: “We have waited a long time for a play that dealt comprehensively with climate change. I think the credibility of those plays has stood up since.”They have asked Waters to update the works, looking at the science and political context. Both theatres will also work with Julie’s Bicycle, a nonprofit organisation that works within the creative industries, to ensure the coproduction is made sustainably. “It feels utterly impossible to put on the stage but that became the appeal of it,” said Longhurst, who will direct.

Source: The Guardian January 21, 2020 06:00 UTC