Fear and Airconditioning - a climate change story

by Mark Mulkerin

In the midst of a heatwave that threatens the city's electrical grid and the health and safety of all those relying on air conditioning to survive, Jake struggles to convince his elderly mother, Joyce, to move north to the relative safety of Wisconsin.

In the midst of a heatwave that threatens the city's electrical grid and the health and safety of all those relying on air conditioning to survive, Jake struggles to convince his elderly mother, Joyce, to move north to the relative safety of Wisconsin.

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  • Karen Fix Curry: Fear and Airconditioning - a climate change story

    I like how the son and the mother are set on their goals and ready to battle to get what they want, all in the setting of climate change. Without getting political, Mark deftly uses climate change as an opportunity to help both characters. Fun and funny while highlighting the world we now face.

    I like how the son and the mother are set on their goals and ready to battle to get what they want, all in the setting of climate change. Without getting political, Mark deftly uses climate change as an opportunity to help both characters. Fun and funny while highlighting the world we now face.

  • Paul Donnelly: Fear and Airconditioning - a climate change story

    This realistically rendered mother/son relationship is used to explore responses -from justifiable alarm to head in the sand denial - to the impact of climate change. The mother ultimately uses her son's concern to manipulate him to her will on another topic. Thoroughly compelling throughout.

    This realistically rendered mother/son relationship is used to explore responses -from justifiable alarm to head in the sand denial - to the impact of climate change. The mother ultimately uses her son's concern to manipulate him to her will on another topic. Thoroughly compelling throughout.

  • Lucy Wang: Fear and Airconditioning - a climate change story

    Terrific play that shows how real, personal, and deadly climate change is. Mulkerin brings it home in this mother son relationship. Jake struggles to convince his mother to move somewhere "safer," even though they have a strained relationship and she does not want to believe climate change is a matter of life or death.

    Terrific play that shows how real, personal, and deadly climate change is. Mulkerin brings it home in this mother son relationship. Jake struggles to convince his mother to move somewhere "safer," even though they have a strained relationship and she does not want to believe climate change is a matter of life or death.

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Character Information

  • Jake
    Character Age
    late twenties to early forties
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
  • Joyce
    Character Age
    late fifties to mid seventies depending on Jake's age
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female