normal.suburban.planetary.meltdown.

On a suburban street, a very normal voiceover (Cerini) describes the normality of the grass and wheelie bin, and is interrupted by a street-smart denim-wearing dog telling the voice to "skedaddle" so she can bark in the quiet of Earth Hour. The quiet is interrupted by a man and his daughter coming outside because they turned off their power, even though nobody would know if they watched telly. But this is the Earth's Hour and the man hears the voice over telling him he's dying, can talk to the dog, and can't breathe.

normal.suburban.planetary.meltdown was the third script commissioned for the Suitcase Series, Malthouse Theatre's award-winning education program, established in 2010. The program sees Year 9 & 10 drama students use theatre to explore their relationship to climate change, with a new script commissioned every two years.

The script functions as source material for the students to explore, developing their own theatrical responses and presenting them to each other in conjunction with the Malthouse production. 

This production was also performed at The Cube in Frankston (23 - 24 October) and remounted in the Beckett Theatre in 2015 (28 Oct – 6 Nov).