BATCH: SEASON OF NEW WORK AT GRIFFIN

Like a trance Ted talk, David Finnigan, fearless writer of Kill Climate Deniers, tears through a litany of tropes that might make the subject of climate change more palatable and conversational in YOU’RE SAFE TILL 2024.

That’s only five years away, the clock is ticking, and we’ve got to take action.

Finnigan doesn’t like figures but he’s stuck with them. Seventy is a figure that looms large. Seventy years, since the end of World War II, the world has been hurtling towards exponential catastrophe – degrading bio diversity, superphosphating our fowl and polluting the planet with plastic.

It’s time to take our foot off the accelerator to oblivion, but how do we do, and how do we convince the populace to participate.
Simple, we babble on in blockbuster talk, using musicals like Hamilton and movies like Titanic to illustrate, inform and educate.

Featuring soundscapes and samplings from DJ Reuben Ingall made up mostly of scientist suggestions of musical inspiration, YOU’RE SAFE TILL 2024 is a snappy call to conversation about the most important change happening in the world today – and what we can do to change it.

In YOU’VE GOT MAIL, Meg Ryan is looking for love on the internet. Not so much love but hot raunchy cybersex. She finds a kind and thoughtful stranger in a chat room and instantly engages in flirty repartee.

He goes by the handle Tom Underescore Hanks, and he’s an underhanded low down predator, real name, Fox.

If you’re expecting a theatrical transcription of the movie, You’ve Got Mail, forget it. This is more like Sleepless in Cyberspace, as the plot spirals, genre bends, and a camp, uncanny parody begins. Ella Prince is Meg Ryan playing pixelated all teeth and wide eyed eyed to hilarious effect.

Christopher Ratcliff in helmet haired wig plays the unctuous Tom Underscore Hanks and Sophia Campion is the Internet, a side show side stage cabaret ethereal accompanied by musical keyboardist and composer, Benjamin Freeman.

Both shows launched the current Batch season at Griffin Theatre, an indicator that the season will veer from the sublime to the ridiculous in all the best ways.

A three-week fiesta of the freshest, wildest and most inventive new shows in Sydney. An exciting crop of storytellers, poets, comedy artists and non-traditional performance makers will take over the iconic Stables stage—and when it all gets too exciting you can refresh yourself with hand-crafted beers care of Batch Brewing Co.