Climate Changer

Beastly good fun embedded in ancient stand-up comedy on the subject of human frailty. An evening of didactic dance and song, in enchanting quotation marks. Come ruminate over these questions with the ruminants. Two acts in unusually fine feather.

Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar is a much-analysed and much-quoted cult classic of the 20th century. In part, the story, inspired by her own life, exposes with brutal honesty the stages of becoming a woman. Yet, it is also a rendering of the transitional period from adolescence to adulthood that is filled with insecurity, an expression of inner fears and a search for self-identity of elemental power.

Within the game, at least, control is a given. You have an impact on its world. Other people escape into it. Don’t say that’s not what you are doing too! Well, I see. You create characters on FB and Insta, you post about solidarity and taking vacations with the dog, and you break into a sweat when people don’t like your event. The events experienced by your online avatar. The only difference is that I, unlike you, know that the character in the video game is not me. And right there in the City Park, I thought, “But what if it is?”