Global warming skeptics, beware: A play with the alarming title “Kill Climate Deniers” may be coming to a theater near you.
Written by Australian playwright David Finnigan, “Kill Climate Deniers” kicked off Thursday the 2018 season of the Griffin Theatre in Sydney after a week of previews, with the final show scheduled for April 7.
Kill Climate Deniers: Playwright takes on Andrew Bolt, climate change sceptics and Breitbart News https://t.co/ZcfPIcxJO9 via @ClimateDepot
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) March 1, 2018
The plot? “As a classic rock band takes the stage in Parliament House’s main hall, 96 armed eco-terrorists storm the building and take the entire government hostage, threatening to execute everyone unless Australia ends global warming. Tonight,” said the play’s website.
The play was commissioned in 2014 with a $19,000 grant from the Australian government, but its first staging was shut down following a backlash led by conservative Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt.
“How does the ACT Government justify spending taxpayers’ money on a theatre work entitled ‘Kill Climate Deniers’?” asked Mr. Bolt in a column dated Sept. 30, 2014. “What sane government donates to a project urging others to kill fellow citizens, even as a ‘joke’? Are these people mad?”
Mr. Finnigan, who described the play as a “pretty joyful comedy,” said he consulted with scientists while writing the play, and later with “climate deniers” after the brouhaha over the title.
“I genuinely think they understand perhaps better than myself and a lot of left-leaning liberals the consequences of climate science,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Company. “And because they understand the consequences, they can’t accept the science.”
Griffin Theatre artistic director Lee Lewis called it “an action film wrapped in a dance party wrapped in a documentary feature.”
Chookas to everybody for tonight’s first preview of ‘KILL CLIMATE DENIERS’ by David Finnigan! Here we go! #killclimatedeniers pic.twitter.com/kszdJZveMC
— Griffin Theatre Co (@griffintheatre) February 23, 2018
The play had a brief run last fall at the Garage Theater in Long Beach, California, but the latest staging represents the show’s first full-scale production.
Read more at Washington Times
Finnigan sounds like a true Deep Ecologist just like the Unibomber or Earth First founder Dave Foreman as well as Al Bore and people should totaly boycott the production and stay away from the theater showing this terrible production
And these are the very same people who go around
espousing TOLERANCE and DIVERSITY on their Subaru’s bumper stickers.
These are the first people who will describe themselves as kind, loving, and intellectual… These are also the people who never attended any Science 101 classes because it interfered with their majors in Ambiguous Gender Studies and Socialist Rights for single cell life forms.
The level of hypocrisy is astounding. I still remember that the same people who were demanding academic freedom were trying to kick ROTC off campus.
Real persecution of climate deniers (climate realists is a more accurate term) already exists. For running just one comic strip critical of the climate change movement Scott Adams of Dilbert had speaking engagements canceled and said over all his income was reduced by one third. There are serious suggestions of imprisoning climate realists and in 2012 there was a serious suggestion that they should be executed. Considering the history of the world there is a real danger as time goes on. Fortunately as time goes on and the climate continues to take a course not predicted by the politically motivated models, the climate change movement and the treat to those who oppose it will weaken.
Proving the fact that many radical enviromentalists want humans to go extinct like the dodo well i wish there were more dodos and fewer green turkeys