Weather We will Weather the Weather?

Weather We will Weather the Weather is a 15 minute theater piece. It uses the accessible aesthetics of street theater to illuminate the intersection between homelessness and climate change. The 8 actors plus 1 musician are a diverse rag tag team of people, the majority of whom have the lived experience of homelessness. The ensemble of performers break stereotypes that the audience may hold of those who experience homelessness. We have performed the show where there were once tents in an encampment during the height of covid.

Weather we will Weather the Weather is image and music based sprinkled with sparse, potent language. It appeals to both children and adults. Flags, buckets, umbrellas, cardboard props, and lots of luggage help tell the story of climate catastrophes across the United States. It employs humor and some fun audience participation so that the facts we state are more easily digestible. We have had excellent audiences and have been very well received. An estimate of 300 people have seen the show so far. This weekend we had the opportunity to perform the show at a public art event in Minneapolis that is usually held on a frozen lake. However, the weather was so unseasonably warm that we had to perform on the land amidst puddles from melting snow. The image of our soggy wet feet drove home the reality of climate change in Minneapolis.

The piece reminds the audience that not all suffer equally from climate change and also that not all are equally responsible for its making. The piece hopefully inspires an increase in the public will to insist on change.  We ask “Got Some Change? “ And, remember, when earth becomes inhabitable, we will all become homeless.