UFV’s School of Creative Arts (SOCA) is part of many institutions across the globe taking part in the biannual Climate Change Theatre Action festival.

At each festival, 50 playwrights write a five minute play that is shared worldwide, each short play is written to foster dialogue and conversation concerning a global crisis.

Brooke Tremblay, Harmit Sharma, and Harveer Singh, three students taking part in the festival, chose to perform Now written by Wren Brian. 

“What she [Brian] wrote at the beginning about being a bit of a pessimist, I feel like I'm the same way,” Tremblay says. “People always think about now, and how awful the world is now. The way the play spoke about the generations that are coming next, the changes for them, even if you don't see it, they will, and it's worth it in the end spoke to me.”

Guiseppe Condello, production manager of theatre for SOCA, says that the festival combines the impact and messages that theatre can touch on, and connect with live performances.

“The theme of the climate and bringing attention to our misuse of materials, and of disposal materials, and the general focus on what's going on[politically], and climate change,” Condello says. “Theater as a form of expression has for decades been used to bring politics and environment to the forefront and sort of bring it to the audience's minds. I feel like each play sort of did that in their own way, that was very powerful.”

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