You're either on the bus or off the bus
“We congratulate everybody who buys a ticket for having the foresight to make that bold step to leave their known world, friends and family behind and to get on this bus with us,” says Mueller. “You've bought your one-way ticket and your berth at this safe-haven resilient space…where, prospectively, you will be able to weather the apocalypse that is coming.”is happening because of climate change — specifically, a lack of safe, clean water. And Control Group is taking this show on the road.
The first act of the roughly three-hour show is all about gathering supplies to take to a place called"The Refuge," with different performances at each of the bus’s stops in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods. The Refuge touts itself as a utopian community, where you’ll be safe no matter what happens in the world outside — a place where “you’ll never have to worry about anything, ever again,” according to“Some shenanigans happen,” says assistant director Caroline Sharkey.
“I think this show is really about how different people respond and deal with climate change, especially when we're right on the precipice of things changing really drastically,” adds Sharkey.
“From an artist's perspective, I think it's really cool that every audience member is going to walk away with a different experience of what the show is, because you do get to make choices or follow different people,” adds actor Gabrielle Barnett. “You could come see this show four or five times and not have the same show twice.”
“I hope that people…become more aware of what will happen in Denver specifically,” says Sharkey. “I think we always are like, ‘Oh, yeah, you know, all of Florida will be underwater. That's not me.’ But in Denver specifically, there's a lot that could happen. Denver is actually a prairie, so water is pretty hard to come by. We could very easily only have water once a week, and then only have it once a month, and then have to filter our water ourselves.