You may have noticed that the climate crisis has been a hot (sorry) topic of conversation this summer. With large swathes of the UK hit by 40-degree temperatures and wildfires raging on our doorsteps, the threat to the planet has been impossible to ignore. And as with any threat to humanity, artists inevitably make art about it, in a bid to fathom the unfathomable and perhaps even bring about some change.
The Trials, from award-winning playwright Dawn King at the Donmar Warehouse, is a courtroom drama with a difference. The development process engaged 1,372 young people through community outreach – eventually whittling them down to an energetic cast of 12, many of whom are making their stage debuts.
