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Below is a Twitter synopsis of Generation Hot Program A - I’ve tried not to have spoilers, but you may want to skip reading if you intend to go see this performance. The show includes three separate performances by young artists who are responding to our current climate crisis through the creation of new performances. They have been mentored by The Only Animal’s co-founder Eric Rhys Miller and mia susan amir of The Story We Be.

@AllysonMcGrane: Waiting for the start of Generation Hot Program A! Three shows in one based on ideas about global warming from emerging artists....

In the end, because one of the players bombastically kissed the audience, I realized Hot Pepper may have been more interesting than I suspected. This conclusion came only in retrospect. Why… did I have to work so hard and …stew so long to get it? …to get that it may not be more complicated than this; around the world, folks connect over corporate office culture. Good or Bad, discuss:

hot pepper on stage

Pi Theatre and Rumble Production’s joint presentation of after the quake is a stunning piece of theatre.

Manami Hara, Leina Dueck and Testsuro Shigematsu are seen after the quake, photograph by Ken Bryant