Rotterdam aan Zee
A theatrical evacuation, an immersive play about climate change taking place in and around a bus that’s helping you escape a ‘flooding’ city at nightfall
Goal
You can read about climate change and its consequences, but for people who haven’t experienced those consequences yet, the issue often remains too abstract to truly worry about. This play makes those consequences tangible for people living in Rotterdam, blurring reality with fictional encounters that demonstrate how painful it is to evacuate your home because of flooding.
Target audience(s)
Anyone living in Rotterdam, brave enough for immersive theater.
Main activities
Promote climate action by confronting people with climate change induced stress, loss and hurt
Team
Meander Immersief, a theater collective consisting of Joris Albeda, Marco Hoving, Alexander Brouwer and David Schwarz
Relevant dimensions
The dimensions most relevant to this project are: embodying, imagining and caring
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Close
In the performance you experience what it's like to flee your home because of a flood (Embodying). You feel the fear and get to know the tough decisions people have to make because of natural disasters (Caring). Rotterdam aan Zee helps people, living in a western context in which climate change doesn't seem like an imminent danger, imagine an uncertain future (Imagining).
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