Climate campaigners have been sounding the alarm for decades, but only now the days are getting hot and the rivers are running dry have they had much impact. We are simple creatures, programmed to respond to visible threat and bad at dealing with the theoretical, however well founded. That being the case, Muster Station: Leith makes a convincing job of turning abstract hypothesis into tangible experience. A few more steps down our apocalyptic road and this is what it could be like.
As is the tradition of Grid Iron theatre company, it is an immersive performance in which the audience are cast as refugees from an environmental catastrophe. Waters are rising and we are less than a week away from a devastating tidal wave. We find ourselves in the school hall, now a processing centre run by the UK Department for Evacuation, where stern officials bark questions at us and make us wait.
