Whether it’s intended or not, the message is clear, this isn’t some crisis in the faraway future, we are living with it now. I feel slightly envious as one performer wanders across the beach licking an ice lolly. While the sunbathers appear cool and relatively unruffled, the audience are certainly feeling the heat, with people chugging their water bottles and fanning themselves with the printed libretto. The people on the beach carry on oblivious - can’t they hear it? It’s a well-delivered epiphany about our own collective denial of the climate crisis.Ī scene from the Sun & Sea at Cork City Hall. The relaxed holiday vibe turns more ominous, as an insistent siren-like noise invades. They blend in so well with the community cast, it’s fun trying to figure out who is singing what part, as arias are let loose from sun loungers and a jet-setting ‘wealthy mommy’ feeds her son sushi (I can’t help but think of the air miles) while singing about the oceans of the world they have swum in.Ĭhildren throw a beach ball in the shape of a globe to each other, reminding us of how we have played so thoughtlessly with their futures. The singers’ inner stream-of-consciousness is given voice against beguiling synth beats. A scene from the Sun & Sea at Cork Midsummer Festival.
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