Earthquakes in London by Mike Bartlett

Earthquakes in London was first performed after a disappointing climate summit; in its final scene, a Thunberg-like teenage girl walks barefoot to London to speak to the nation on the climate emergency; it's about the painful intimacies of family life and the catastrophe of world consumerism. Mike Bartlett's play should have been written yesterday, but in fact it was completed over ten years ago, after the Copenhagen summit of 2009, which, like Glasgow 2021, failed to ensure our world's future.

It's an intricately structured, thematically coherent, and, in Bartlett's words, excessive play about generational responsibility, consumer culture, and human hope for the future of the planet. Its climate change topic, painfully intimate plot-reveals, and the humour of its social commentary, make it a hugely compelling piece for performance and study by young people.