I’d be more impressed if she live streamed it so that people didn’t have to take fossil fueled trips to see it, but, you know, cultists gotta cult
Climate change concert event ‘Dear Everything’ hopes to inspire unity
V, the playwright formerly Eve Ensler, is hoping her new piece of theater can do for climate change what her “The Vagina Monologues” did for women’s rights.
“We’re living in a period where we’re so disconnected,” she says. “What we all have to do is connect — connect to the Earth and connect to each other.”
She hopes to give audiences a road map at the one-night-only staging of “Dear Everything,” with actors and activists Jane Fonda and Rosario Dawson speaking to the crowd. It will play Manhattan’s Terminal 5 on Jan. 30.
Doesn’t Jane Fonda live in Atlanta and Beverly Hills? Lots of fossil fuels.
“At a time when our planet is burning from the impact of global warming and human-made climate catastrophe, ‘Dear Everything’ is a powerful musical uprising,” Fonda said in an email.
The concert-musical hybrid has songs by Justin Tranter and Caroline Pennell, choreography by Christiana Hunt and direction by Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus.
V will play the narrator for a story with 10 singers as well as a youth choir. The show doesn’t spell out a single prescription for climate change but hopes to inspire collective action.
“It’s not necessarily about the politics of solution. It’s about the politics of connection,” says V. “I think it’s imaginative. I think it’s really calling on all of us to use our imaginations because that’s the greatest thing we have to really see a way out of where we are.”
Right, right, no politics. Seriously, 35 years of spreading awareness and almost none of them practice what they preach. They just bay at the moon.
“I was trying to find a way to create a story, to create pop music, that could really generate an awakening in people. Not by pounding them over the head, but by saying, ‘Listen to the kids. Listen to young people. They really have a vision of what’s coming because they can feel it in their bodies and they want a life.’”
Yup, 35 years of this crap. The kiddies have zero intention of reducing their own use of energy and traveling to take selfies and videos. And they definitely want to listen to old ladies, right?
