Steve Waters’s double bill about global heating, The Contingency Plan, is even more relevant today than when it was first performed in 2009. As the BBC’s publicity for its recent series Frozen Planet II puts it, we are living on “a planet on the brink of major change”.
Each play stands alone, or can be experienced as a pair, in any order. I saw On the Beach, directed by Chelsea Walker, first. The writing has echoes of Ibsen or Arthur Miller: fates of individuals are connected to wider realities; the consequences of past actions (or inactions) disrupt the present and threaten the future.
