At Rogue Machine in Venice, Mike Bartlett's play confronts environmental disaster with stark truths and a ray of hope.
The truths we hold to be self-evident revolve around personal liberty, but when it comes to the greater good — the survival of the planet, for example — other truths are less convenient. Navigating the moral tightrope between individual need and collective responsibility brings riveting seismic impact toMike Bartlett
Flashbacks introduce us to the corruption of a brilliant young engineer who buried his alarming environmental research findings in exchange for funding from the rapidly expanding airline industry of the early 1970s. The bulk of the play concerns the present-day legacy of that original sin, as the three daughters of the now-embittered scientist deal with a looming climate crisis.
Co-directors Hollace Starr and John Perrin Flynn deliver the play’s messages with urgency leavened with sly humor. A whimsically choreographed dance sequence inventively projects Freya’s pregnancy dilemma with a fantasy troupe of smugly complacent mothers bearing cloth-swaddled infants.
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