SCENES FROM THE
CLIMATE ERA
How do you plan a life when the future looks nothing like the past?
A play by David Finnigan
About the play
Scenes from the Climate Era is a fast-paced, unsettling, and darkly human response to the climate crisis. Told through more than fifty short scenes, the play jumps across continents and timeframes, from community halls and conferences to nightclubs and flood barriers, capturing how our changing climate is never far from peoples' minds and lives.
By weaving together moments of hope, humour, uncertainty, and grief, the play resists simple narratives or solutions. Instead, it asks how to – and whether we can – live with a crisis that is simultaneously omnipresent and somehow so easy to ignore.
Performed with minimal staging and rapid role changes, Scenes from the Climate Era brings the global crisis into sharp focus, inviting audiences to recognise familiar patterns of denial, optimism, and reckoning — and to reflect on what comes next.
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We're looking for passionate people to help bring Scenes from the Climate Era to life. Whether you want to direct, design, perform, or support — there's a place for you.
Core Production Team
Lead the creative and technical direction of the production.
- –Director, Producer, Technical Director, Stage Manager
- –Commitment: full rehearsal & production period (approx. 6 weeks)
- –Previous experience preferred but not essential
Deadline: Midnight Sunday 15 March
Apply →Operations Team
Help bring the show to life behind the scenes.
- –Promotions and publicity, Welfare, Lights, Sound
- –Commitment: varies by role (2–6 weeks)
- –Open to all levels of experience
Deadline: To be announced
Apply (soon)Actors
Perform across fifty-plus scenes in a fast-paced ensemble.
- –Ensemble cast with rapid role changes
- –Commitment: rehearsals starting end of March, performances 12–16 May
- –No prior audition experience required
Deadline: To be announced
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The team
The creative and production team behind Scenes from the Climate Era.
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Director
Creative direction and oversight of the production.
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Producer
Help bring the show to life behind the scenes.
Orlando Timmerman
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Co-Producer
New to the theatre scene, Orlando acts as the liaison between funding bodies, writers, and the production team.
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Technical Director
Technical direction and implementation.
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Supported by
The company is grateful to the following organisations for their support:
Cambridge University ADC Theatre
Cambridge Zero Postgraduate Academy