SCENES FROM THE CLIMATE ERA

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SCENES FROM
THE CLIMATE ERA

  • 7 May – 21 Jun 25 Multiple Venues
  • 1 hour 20 minutes (no interval)

SCENES FROM
THE CLIMATE ERA

Written by David Finnigan
Directed by Carissa Licciardello

  • Venue Multiple Venues
  • Dates 7 May – 21 Jun 25
  • Duration 1 hour 20 minutes (no interval)

Life, love, and making money, as things heat up.

Massive artificial reefs. Mirror clouds. Zombie mice.

Beaches where once there were none.

Travelling the world when aeroplanes are gone.

How we deal with big, breathtaking ideas – and the crazy excitement of living in hope.

It’s sixty-five short scenes – comic, tragic, and everything in between.

Jam-packed with info, humanity and truth, but never wagging its finger in your face, Scenes From the Climate Era is a play about now. About the choices we made yesterday, and the difficult beauty of tomorrow.

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TEAM

  • David Finnigan
    Writer
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    David Finnigan is a playwright and game designer from Ngunnawal country. He works with climate andearth scientists to create theatre and games about complex systems and planetary transformation.His six-part performance series about climate change, You’re Safe, has been presented at the BarbicanLondon, the Sydney Opera House, ArtScience Singapore and the Cultural Center of the Philippines.David’s […]

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  • Carissa Licciardello
    Director
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    Carissa Licciardello is a Resident Director at Belvoir. She was previously an Artistic Associate for the company and its inaugural Andrew Cameron Fellow. She graduated from NIDA’s Directing course in 2017. Her credits include: for Belvoir – as Director/Co-Adaptor, A Room of One’s Own; as Associate Director, Fangirls 2019; as Assistant Director, Counting & Cracking; Ghosts. For Sydney Theatre Company, as […]

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  • A cast of 5 including

  • Abbie-lee Lewis
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    Abbie-lee Lewis is a Kalkadoon actress who trained on the Aboriginal Theatre and Acting courses at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth. Her credits include David Finnigan’s Scenes from the Climate Era, for Belvoir St Theatre, Seanna Van Helten’s Fallen, directed by Penny Harpham, for Sport for Jove; Our Town, directed by Clare […]

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  • Creatives

  • Nick Schlieper
    Set & Lighting Designer
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    Nick Schlieper has designed for all of the major performing arts companies in Australia, and works regularly in Europe and the USA. He is one of Australia’s most highly awarded designers having received seven Sydney Critics Awards (two for set design and 5 for lighting design), six Melbourne Green Room Awards, the inaugural 2013 Australian […]

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  • Ella Butler
    Costume Designer
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    Ella is a Sydney-based Production and Costume Designer for theatre, film and live performance. Informed by her beginnings in theatre, Ella’s work has evolved through contrived spaces, searching for the extraordinary found in the everyday.Ella’s work as Costume Designer at Belvoir includes Tell Me I’m Here, The Weekend and Scenes From the Climate Era. Her […]

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  • David Bergman
    Composer & Sound Designer
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    David is a video, music and sound designer for theatre, dance, opera, installation, and film. Theatre credits include: composer and sound designer for Scenes from the Climate Era, sound designer for Into the Woods, video designer for Blue, co-sound designer for Packer and Sons (Belvoir); video designer for Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr […]

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  • Laura Farrell
    Vocal Coach
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    Laura Farrell (she/her) is a Voice and Dialect Coach living and working on Gadigal land. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Voice from NIDA; a Post Graduate Diploma in Voice from the Victorian College of the Arts; and a Bachelor of Music Theatre from the Victorian College of the Arts. A current lecturer […]

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  • Vaishnavi Suryaprakash
    Dramaturg
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    Vaishnavi Suryaprakash is an actor, dancer and emerging writer. She completed her training at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, in 2017 and also holds an Arts/Law degree from Sydney University. Her theatre credits include Counting and Cracking, Life of Galileo and Sami in Paradise for Belvoir; Grand Horizons, White Pearl and Julius Caesar […]

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