The show is an intelligent, serious meditation on the most serious of subjects: the climate crisis. The script is devised within the company with actors performing a collage of soliloquies accompanied by video and audio and some stage singing.

An intelligent, serious meditation on the most serious of subjects

Quibbles could be raised with the play's text, but the main themes of our feelings of powerlessness and guilt come over clearly. The key question is literally asked on stage – what is the purpose of the show: What is the point of rehashing what we all already know?

One of the actors says that he has fear in his mind but not in his body. This show makes one compare works that have achieved those stunning theatrical images or metaphors that do put the fear in the body.

It may be harsh to demand similar levels of art, but unfortunately that is the requirement of the themes that square product theatre have chosen to tackle; they do not succeed.

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A collage style devised work exploring the (potential) collapse of the Anthropocene, this personal meditation on the climate crisis explores the beauty and inevitability of impermanence. Born from the debris of late-stage capitalism, Things We Will Miss features performers in disparate roles, including an amateur astronomer, a park ranger, mythological prophet Cassandra, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and ultimately, themselves. Driven by image, light, and sound rather than linear narrative, it viscerally explores the grief and beauty, the horror and hope inherent in being alive in this very moment.