Gaia Global Circus

Gaia Global Circus

GGC led by Bruno Latour

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A scene from the play “Gaia Global Circus”

From a New York Times review:
…the play takes aim at a problem he has described as the “abysmal distance between our little selfish human worries and the great questions of ecology”: our failure to feel much of anything in the face of the climate crisis.

In a series of vignettes performed beneath a billowing, floating canopy (by Olivier Vallet), “Gaïa Global Circus” wants to rouse us from our collective shrug. It attempts this in part by invoking figures from mythology, like the Greek goddess Gaïa, who personifies the Earth, and Cassandra, the prophet whose curse was that she would not be believed. Climate scientists, the play suggests, are similarly spurned.

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