Best People (reprise)

They come in all shapes and sizes. One tries to connect, the other to disrupt or just sow doubt: climate speeches. For almost half a century they have been spoken on all kinds of stages by world leaders, scientists and activists. All different in tone, but what unites them is a sense of urgency and call for change.

For Dear People, theatre producer and writer Anoek Nuyens (The Shell Case) examined climate speeches of the past fifty years. Once marked by optimism, when both left-wing and right-wing politicians like Margaret Thatcher and Richard Nixon called for tackling this "new big problem. Now, fifty years later, optimism has given way to despair and climate activists are taking to the streets all over the world. The question now on the table: what comes after this despair? Can the turning point lie in the sum of speeches?

Dear People is a monologue inspired by 50 years of climate speeches. A topical performance about inspired climate language, rich imagination and poor politics -played by Louis d'Or winner Bram Suijker.