By Zarina Shea
Directed by Sarah Hughes

LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
March 2019

BRIC
October 2019

With Dee Beasnael, Lanxing Fu, Lucy Kaminsky and Harmony Stempel
Sound Designer for LPAC John Salutz
Production Designer Alejandro Fajardo
Co-Production Designer for BRIC Bax Pitt
Sound Designer/ Composer for BRIC Eamon Goodman
Stage Manager for BRIC Allie York
Choreographer for BRIC Kate Rose McLaughlin

When climate events that destroy millions of lives become quotidian, is it the apocalypse yet?  When the big-picture problem to which we're all contributing starts to become horribly clear, is it the apocalypse yet? Does this all seem too epic, too dramatic, too over-the-top for a normal conversation? Would an opera be enough? Climate Change: An Opera? breaks open popular, canonical, and epic forms of storytelling to question how we got here and where the hell we're going.

These work-in-progress showings of Climate Change: An Opera? were presented as part of LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Rough Draft Festival in March 2019, and a BRICLab Residency in October 2019 with support from New Georges. The piece was previously workshopped in the New Georges Jam and an excerpt was shown in the 2018 New Georges Jamboree featuring Tanyamaria.

Photos by Luisa Alarcón.