They All Stay With You, scenes from Anthropocenean life
by Josh Drimmer
--Produced by Broom Street Theater, Madison, WI, February-March 2025, dir. Maria Dahman
The world's in its last days, at least for humans. Isla, Nick, and 14-year-old Violet are a makeshift family living in a subterranean home on a planet that is no longer inhabitable. Their pursuits are normal enough: Nick scavenges the outside world, Isla feeds her thoughts into an artificial consciousness, while Violet gets...
--Produced by Broom Street Theater, Madison, WI, February-March 2025, dir. Maria Dahman
The world's in its last days, at least for humans. Isla, Nick, and 14-year-old Violet are a makeshift family living in a subterranean home on a planet that is no longer inhabitable. Their pursuits are normal enough: Nick scavenges the outside world, Isla feeds her thoughts into an artificial consciousness, while Violet gets visitors, in the form of ghosts from multiple eras. (Sure, Isla and Nick do too, but they're slightly better at compartmentalizing / lying to themselves.)
When the world has run down and no future lies ahead, you take what you can get, and the ghosts do at least make for pleasant company. That is, if they are ghosts at all.
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