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Learo Earle reviews Belvoir St Theatre's new production, which is a smorgasbord of short plays that reflects us to an audience of us.

Director Carissa Licciardello presents David Finnigan’s (Playwright) SCENES FROM THE CLIMATE ERA with a simplicity that allows the series of stories told by five performers to be the focus of the work. 

The play begins with a conversation. Two people, sitting at a table, discussing whether plastic bags are truly worse for the environment than paper bags…

Scenes from a Climate Era is delightfully open-ended, allowing the audience to engage and consider so many opinions.

David Finnigan’s latest work is kaleidoscopic, using darkly comedic short plays to tell a much grander tale of tragedy, hope and catastrophe

Scenes from the Climate Era will have you asking: have I just been radicalised by a play? 

The writer of Kill Climate Deniers has learned his lesson from the furore around his previous play. Now he just wants to tell a good story.

Belvoir St Theatre's Artistic Director Eamon Flack on telling the stories and imagining the realities of climate change.