'“Because revolution is better at night.”
'What would it actually take to stop climate change dead in its tracks? Guns? Revolution? A pumping soundtrack?
'Kill Climate Deniers centres on a militant cell of eco-activists that takes the audience hostage during a concert at Parliament House. Led by charismatic spokeswoman Catch, they demand Australia immediately cease all carbon emissions and coal exports—or they’ll start executing their 1,700 hostages.
'But they’re not the only ones to take the title literally. Between scenes of bloody action and banging ’90s tunes, writer David Finnigan discusses the outrage the play’s title provoked from Andrew Bolt and his cabal of conservative bloggers. The original production was shut down in the ensuing shitstorm, leading Finnigan to eventually fold the scandal into the play.'
Source: Theatre's blurb.
Commissioned by Aspen Island Theatre Company (Canberra) in 2014 and partially funded by a $19,000 grant, Kill Climate Deniers was originally pulled from production after Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt wrote a column about it, which attracted the attention of climate-change denialists and other conservative columnists, including the US-based Breitbart News Network. The work wasn't staged until 2018.
See Hannah Reich's 'Kill Climate Deniers: Playwright Takes on Andrew Bolt, Climate Change Sceptics and Breitbart News', ABC News, 12 March 2018 (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-01/kill-climate-deniers-playwright-takes-on-bolt-breitbart/9478748
Produced by Griffin Theatre, Darlinghurst, from 23 February to 7 April 2018.
Director: Lee Lewis.
Designer: Jonathan Hindmarsh.
Lighting Designer: Trent Suidgeest.
Sound Designer: Steve Toulmin.
Audiovisual Designer: Toby Knyvett.
With Eden Falk, Sheridan Harbridge, Emily Havea, Rebecca Massey, and Lucia Mastrantone.
Presented by Kinetik Collective and State Theatre Company of South Australia, 8 - 17 September 2022, Slighsby's Hall of Possibilities.
Director & Kinetik Co-Founder: Clara Solly-Slade.
Designer & Kinetik Co-Founder: Bianka Kennedy.
Multimedia Artist: Dave Court.
Lighting Designer: Chris Petridis.
Composer & Live Musician: Mat Morison.
Cast: Anna Steen, Kate Cheel, Katherine Sortini, Eddie Morrison, and Ren Williams.
'Rapidly rising sea levels and temperatures, erratic and severe weather: we have made nature uncanny, broken and unpredictable. In his book Dark Ecology, eco-critical philosopher Tim Morton describes global warming as a “wicked problem for which time is running out, for which there is no central authority; those seeking the solution are also creating it” (37). Our modern plot has dark irony and repetition, paradox and illogic. The Anthropocene is absurdist.' (Introduction)
'Four years after backlash shut down the original staging of the play, David Finnigan's Kill Climate Deniers has now opened in Sydney.' (Introduction)
David Finnigan discusses the complex development of his play Kill Climate Deniers and the attacks on the play by some parts of the media.
'Four years after backlash shut down the original staging of the play, David Finnigan's Kill Climate Deniers has now opened in Sydney.' (Introduction)
David Finnigan discusses the complex development of his play Kill Climate Deniers and the attacks on the play by some parts of the media.
'Rapidly rising sea levels and temperatures, erratic and severe weather: we have made nature uncanny, broken and unpredictable. In his book Dark Ecology, eco-critical philosopher Tim Morton describes global warming as a “wicked problem for which time is running out, for which there is no central authority; those seeking the solution are also creating it” (37). Our modern plot has dark irony and repetition, paradox and illogic. The Anthropocene is absurdist.' (Introduction)
