THE CLIMATE MONOLOGUES

After 900 performances of asylum monologues, asylum dialogues, NSU monologues and Mediterranean monologues, now the new play by author and director Michael Ruf.

Droughts, floods, storms. Uninhabitable zones and distribution struggles are spreading. The window of time left to act is getting smaller and smaller. The climate monologues tell of the struggles of various people around the world against climate change. They provide insight into how people in different regions of the world are specifically feeling the consequences of climate change in their own biographies.

The actors have to make existential decisions again and again: between staying at home or leaving, between crop failures in the countryside or living as day labourers in the city, between security and identity, between hunger and risk.

The climate monologues are documentary theatre. Michael Ruf conducts interviews that last several hours, sometimes several days. These interviews are then simply abbreviated and condensed. Nothing else is invented and the language used is retained. Literal, people-oriented theatre.

Each screening is followed by public discussions.

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Droughts, floods, storms. Unohabitable zones and distribution struggles are spreading. The window of time left to act is getting smaller and smaller. The climate monologues tell of the worldwide struggles of a wide variety of people against climate change. They provide insight into how people in different regions of the world feel the consequences of climate change in their own biographies. The actors have repeatedly to make existential decisions: between staying at home or leaving, between crop failures in the countryside or life as a day laborer in the city, between security and identity, between hunger and risk.

The Climate Monologues is documentary theatre. Author/Director Michael Ruf conducts interviews that last several hours, sometimes several days. These interviews are then merely shortened and condensed. Nothing is added and the linguistic expression is maintained. True-to-the-word, people-oriented theatre.

Audience discussions take place following each performance.