Climate Comedy stageplay on tour in Donegal

We Built This City on Rock and Coal is coming to three locations in Donegal this summer.

Arranmore Island, Kilcar and Killybegs will host a performance of the play where comedy meets climate change.

The play, create by award-winning science communicator Dr Jessamyn Fairfield, Katy Schutte, Dr Gesche Kindermann of the University of Galway, and Órla McGovern, had a highly successful first year, and their hopepunk theatre experience returns to Ireland for a second round across the country this summer, visiting venues from arts centres, ancient ringforts and island communities.

Comharchumann Forbartha & Fostaíochta in Arranmore will host the first Donegal play on June 16. The play will then be performed Foresters Community Hall in Killybegs on June 18, and Áislann Community Centre in Kilcar the following evening. 

All performances start at 8 pm and conclude at 9.30 pm with a pre-show audience engagement or workshop before the show. 

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Combining live comedy, citizen science, music, and real local voices, the show invites audiences to share their thoughts on nature and the climate crisis, with songs, sketches, and even scientific presentations improvised live on stage in response.

Each performance is co-created with the community, meaning no two shows are the same, and every laugh is part of a much bigger story, in how the environment is cared for from people’s back gardens to the edge of the exosphere.

More information is available at www.webuiltthiscity.ie