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SYNOPSIS:

At the end of 2019, in the English countryside, Australian playwright David Finnigan began writing a play about the six turning points that have brought us to this moment in time鈥攐ur ecosystems transformed, our planet on the brink of unthinkable climate disaster.鈥疊ut then Finnigan's hometown of Canberra was hit by bushfires. As an area the size of England burned and one billion animals perished, he started to receive texts from loved ones racing to evacuate amid the devastation.鈥疘n a performance that interweaves 75,000 years of humanity with the incredibly personal account of his best friend鈥檚 escape, Finnigan calls on scientific research, phone footage, and a very personal story to illuminate the transforming planet and how we鈥檝e arrived here.

Written and Performed by David Finnigan