With a growing number of plays unpacking the very real risks of climate change inaction, sometimes it can feel as though the topic has been exhausted. The Trials has put global warming firmly back on the radar by addressing it from a new perspective: the next generation.
Set in the not-so-distant dystopian future, the children who are forced with the implications of our lack of significant action are now asked to put the adults over a certain carbon footprint on trial. If they deem the ‘dinosaur’ adults as having reckless and destructive lifestyles, they will then be executed to save resources – a decision the youths are only given 15 minutes per case to debate.
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