How would you define the times we’re living in? As the planet gets warmer and the future seems dangerously uncertain, what would you say about who we are, what we believe and where we’re going? The playwright David Finnigan has an idea. Move over Mistress Isabelle Brooks and forget the Eras tour – this, Finnigan suggests, is the climate era.
Often artists will tackle an era with the macro (a sweeping epic) or the micro (by focusing on a key detail, time or personal narrative). Scenes from the Climate Era, making its debut at Belvoir, takes the micro and turns it macro by presenting more than 50 short plays within a tight 80-minute running time. It’s like looking through a kaleidoscope: a whole fractured into fragments.
