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My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse
February 28, 2023 @ 9:30 PM - March 5, 2023 @ 10:30 PM
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An Irish folk gig goes off the rails when one band member turns into a fish. Come for the trad tunes, stay for the salmon trivia and existential despair: this gig gets weird.
Everything Theatre ★★★★ “A masterclass of gig theatre”
Fringebiscuit ★★★★ “Informative, energetic, divinely absurd […] the music is sublime throughout”
Humanity’s ruined the ecosystem, but humanity’s just a dodgy side branch of fish evolution. The solution’s clear – and that’s where the salmon come in.
Fin’s climate anxiety culminates in his thinking he’s a salmon onstage while his girlfriend and bandmate look on in fishy horror. This could be a climate revolution.
But being a salmon would put particular stress on everyone’s personal lives. And actually, that’s a good question to ask: can our relationships survive this overwhelming timeline we’re in at all? (Features salmon.)
With live trad music, FX pedal soundscapes, global industrial food production, colonialism, fish farming, and probably inevitable ecological destruction?
Winner of Staging Change x VAULT Award 2022
Winner of Axis Green Arts Award (for previous work)
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