Hibernation

by Finegan Kruckemeyer

Presented by VCA Acting and Design and Production
Directed by Maude Davey

Hibernation is set in a very near future, in which the Australian Minister for Space Exploration pitches an innovative solution to the impending climate catastrophe, human hibernation. The world agrees and all of humanity is sent into hibernation for one year. In that year birds multiply, football fields become forests and oceans teem again. At the same time, domestic dogs become feral, subways collapse, and there are some few people who don’t go to sleep. Hibernation explores what might happen, given that - humans being humans – the benefits of saving the world are mainly reaped by the rich and the losses are mainly suffered by the poor. Stories of love, loss and revolution are wound together in a poetic evocation of one possible future.

Content Warning: This production contains coarse language; smoke and haze effects; use of replica weapon (which is not discharged); stories of child and elder loss. It also contains political machinations, propaganda and poetry.

This production will run for approximately 2 hours including a 20 minute interval.

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