Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now is a collection of short plays about a changing climate. Focusing on empowering community, they ask: how can WE make an impactful difference to the climate crisis? 

Performed in different styles, including absurdist and naturalistic drama, the plays follow multiple perspectives you’d be able to see within our own community: from a man facing the impending doom of rising waters in a small Pacific nation, a nurse arrested for attending a demonstration, to an elderly woman protesting the felling of a majestic native tree. 

When the dynamics of families and communities struggle with the mixed messages from the media and from those in power, we see the potential of theatre to start discussions, to open up new possibilities, to imagine solutions and a better future together.

OUR WONDERFUL CREW

Presented by Theatre for Climate

Playwright: Angie Farrow

Director: David O’Donnell

Designer: Lucas Neal

Sound Designer: Isobel Pecora

Lighting Designer: Sean Fa’aiuaso

Production Manager: Sarah Thomasson

Stage Manager: Will McMorran

Publicity: Anna Barker

Marketing Mentee: Zoe Harris

OUR WONDERFUL CAST

Ralph Johnson, Liz Kirkman, Mairanga White, Bethany Miller, and Rob Lloyd

The money raised in this Boosted Campaign will help pay our wonderful cast and crew for their time and dedication to the mahi; that theatre has the real power for political and societal change.  

If you would like to support a group of Pōneke artists, emerging and established, please donate if you are able to! If you are not in a position to donate, please help spread the word of this crowdfunding campaign. Every little bit of support counts! 

Following a short successful and critically acclaimed season last year, Don't Look Now is coming to BATS Theatre! 

Don’t Look Now is a collection of short plays for a changing climate. Focusing on empowering community, they ask: how can we make an impactful difference to the climate crisis?

With a team of emerging and established artists, Don’t Look Now is an urgent work hoping to spark community engagement as well as practical solutions for individuals to take in the wake of the climate crisis. 

We believe this story needs to be told now. We are already seeing the effects of climate change in real time, from multiple ‘once in a lifetime’ weather events, to our Pacific neighbours facing the wakes of negligence of those in power. 

We are constantly being told that we must act now if we are going to slow the progress of a warming planet, but what does action mean? And could individual action make any difference? And what would that action look like in reality? 

The plays ask: “How might we convert our sense of terror into positive action?" "How might we flick the mental switch from apathy to awakening?" "If nobody else in the room is prepared to act, how might one person find the courage to go it alone?”