Your House is on Fire 

Climate Change Theater Action

at Mount Sequoyah Center 2019

Clockwise from left: Performance of “Six Polar Bears Fell Out of the Sky This Morning” by Alister Emerson featuring Mischa Hutchings; “Canary” by Hanna Cormick featuring Abdelrahman Metwally; Set for “A Letter to the Ocean” by Caridad Svich.

Your House is on Fire

Katie Pearl – THE EARTH’S BLUE HEART

Caridad Svich – A LETTER FROM THE OCEAN

Yvette Nolan – BREATHING SPACE

Alister Emerson – SIX POLAR BEARS FELL OUT OF THE SKY THIS MORNING

Hanna Cormick – CANARY

Artists Cole Wimpee, Lacy Post, Abdelrahman (Abud) Metwally, Michael Bell, Rachel Lynette, Tre Smith, Ana Miramontes and Mischa Hutchings collectively create a surprising theatrical piece interwoven through the short plays. A roving selection of readings and happenings occur amidst a Mid-Century aesthetic of advertising ploys designed to retrospectively examine how corporate culture has shaped our decades-long perspective on relationships between consumer products and the natural world. The performance will generate action steps surrounding Fayetteville’s initiative to end single-use plastic.

“I don’t want you to hope. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. I want you to act like you would in a crisis. I want you to act like your house is on fire, because it is.” —Greta Thunberg.