From In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, at Playwrights Horizons.
Photo: Valerie Terranova
What do we talk about when we talk about the climate crisis? Like any of the looming, interconnected horrors that thrum beneath our daily existence, garbage-compacted down into the word “issue,” the reality of our ongoing ecocide is a tricky target for theater. How do you use such an ephemeral, archaic, embarrassingly human art form to approach something so vast and catastrophic, something that seems simultaneously to demand and repel our attention? In two new plays, one locally grown and one visiting from Ireland, the future of the warming earth is on view through a side door. In talking about the apocalypse, both Sarah Mantell,…
