Performances
A reading of four short plays, a chain-smoking deer, a funeral for the future – what more could you ask for?
Organized by Mal MacKenzie and Artsake Theatre Company, this CCTA event at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is an afternoon in two parts (three if you’re feeling cheeky and adventurous) to collectively process feelings of powerlessness in the face of crisis.
PART ONE: A climate cafe held outside of Venue 13. This meeting, open to anyone, will offer participants a chance to share emotions surrounding climate collapse in a non-judgemental, non-solution oriented space. This is a chance to express grief, fear, guilt, anger, hopelessness, or any other feeling without being talked out of those feelings.
PART TWO: A theatrical performance inside Venue 13. The show will dance between a staged reading of four CCTA plays, excerpts from “Roadkill Bambi” by Mal MacKenzie, and a devised funeral ritual based on anonymized responses from questions posed during the preceding climate cafe. The CCTA plays featured will be Here in the Long Now by Isla Cowan, Six Polar Bears Fell Out of the Sky this Morning by Alister Emerson, Eat the Rich by Tira Palmquist, and The Presentation by Juan C. Sanchez.
PART THREE: Walk with the cast to TheSpace @ Surgeons Hall to see “Roadkill Bambi,” a play about two lesbians stuck in a time loop and a chain-smoking deer trying to take action while caught in the headlights of disaster.
