DIE KLIMA-MONOLOGE

Documentary Theater by Michael Ruf

After 900 performances of the “Asylum Monologues,” “Asylum Dialogues,” “NSU Monologues,” and “Mediterranean Monologues,” here is the new play by writer and director Michael Ruf.

Droughts, floods, storms. Uninhabitable zones and struggles over resources are spreading. The window of opportunity left for action is growing ever smaller. The Climate Monologues tell the stories of people from all walks of life around the world fighting against climate change. They offer insight into how people in different regions of the world are experiencing the concrete consequences of climate change in their own lives.

The characters are constantly forced to make life-or-death decisions: between staying home or leaving, between crop failures in the countryside or life as a day laborer in the city, between security and identity, between hunger and risk.

The Climate Monologues are documentary theater. Michael Ruf conducts interviews that last several hours, and in some cases, several days. These interviews are then merely shortened and condensed. Nothing is invented, and the participants’ natural language is preserved. It is theater that is true to the original words and close to the human experience.