We’ll Dance oN The Ash of the Apocalypse

Theatre, 50 mins

Near future. A young couple living in a world ravaged by climate change face a terrifying prospect; an unplanned pregnancy.  Together they must decide whether they can bring a defenceless child into a seemingly hopeless world. 

Cast - Maite Jáuregui, Danny Horn Playwright, Director - Melissa-Kelly Franklin

★★★★ ‘A bounty of entertaining and passionate dialogue...and asking some big questions’ - NORTH WEST END UK

FESTIVALS

• PARK THEATRE London, Come What May Festival, 2022

• Reykjavík Fringe, 2022 (dir. by Sólveig Eva, feat. Bergdis Julia & Arnar Hauksson, trans. Urður G. Norðdahl)

• Scenesaver Honour Awards, 2021 - Finalist for BEST PLAYWRIGHT

• Brighton Fringe, 2021 - Nominated for AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

• Edinburgh Fringe, 2021

• Camden Fringe, 2021 - Nominated for OFF-FEST AWARD for BEST THEATRE (Offies/Off West End Awards)

• New Zealand Fringe, 2021

• Auckland Fringe, 2021

• Desert Fest / Alice Springs Fringe, 2021 (dir. by Julia Billington, feat. Jac Marriott & Daniel Milne)

• Dunedin Fringe, 2021

• Melbourne Fringe, 2020 - Nominated for PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

• Adelaide Fringe, 2020

• Reading Fringe, 2020

• Dixon Place, new writing residency, New York, 2020 (dir. by Sólveig Eva, feat. Leerin Campbell & Chris Nester)

• London Scratch Performance, 2019 - Staging Climate: An Evening of New Plays on Environmental Concerns, Bathway Theatre, London

PRESS

• Interview - To Plan a Family: Children, Hope, & the Climate Crisis, Common Home Magazine, Georgetown University (2022)

• Interview - on ABC Arts programme The Mix (Australia, 2020)