Capital

Premiering 2025!

A solo storytelling show that utilizes comedic monologue to interrogate capitalism, climate change, and humanity’s continuing reticence to save ourselves from extinction (fun!). 

Capital had its workshop premiere in April 2024 at the Sunset Theatre in Wells, BC as part of their Exploration Series. It will formally premiere in 2025.

Synopsis

Though we don’t talk about it much at dinner parties, surveys of scientific experts, and the worldwide population, agree humans have less than 200 years left on Earth. Whether that's true or not, it's on everyone's mind, which prompts the question Capital begins with: why are we acting so blasé about our children’s futures? Despite widespread consensus on the effects of climate change, the last fifty years have seen us double-down on our efforts to ruin the planet, while rolling out toothless awareness campaigns like Earth Hour (centered on the backwards metaphor of plunging the world into darkness), and employing restrictive, uninspiring language around environmental protection (ban, save, stop). Capital interrogates the societal assumptions that have led to these missteps – like “bootstrapping”, which encourages citizens to see the world as identical for everyone, never mind their social position. The show examines how these kinds of assumptions prop up global inequality, and set up the idea that we should tackle social problems not as a collective public, but as lone individuals. Capital investigates how our economic and political systems commodify people, but also, in more nuanced ways, our most meaningful forms of self-expression. As intimacy, art, and love, get more and more linked to commerce, people react by distrusting the sincerity of the world around them. Capital argues for a trade-in: switching our current language around climate change for one that actually aligns with reality.