Mother Earth, a climate comedy

Mother Earth, Gaia, invites the Greek gods to a lavish dinner. Lately, she’s been constantly experiencing hot flashes and mood swings. One moment she wakes up drenched in sweat, the next she’s freezing cold, only to then burst into uncontrollable tears or feel rage surging through her body from her toes up. Aren’t gods immortal? Has her time finally come? It’s a crisis—a climate crisis. The table is set for gods and titans. They’ve gathered to figure out who to hold responsible for this.

"My mother is hot enough already." A sign from young activists, somewhere in a climate demonstration. This sentence stuck with creators Victorine Plante (directing) and Erik Snel (text), because it is about our mother Earth getting hotter and hotter, and about a generation that feels that things have to change. From that one sentence grew the idea for a divine comedy about gods and humans, their good intentions and their spectacular ability to make a mess of things.