Esperanza Soto welcomes new recruits to a U.S. drone centre. Run entirely on wind energy, the centre is part of the U.S. Army’s Green Military Movement. One of the drone operators is a climate refugee from Vancouver. What choices will she make when climate refugees attempt to cross the border from Mexico?

A heads up that this episode contains military violence, so keep that in mind when deciding when and where to listen.

Rolling Hills, Green Pastures was written by Carmen Aguirre. Find the transcript here.

Climate Change and Other Small Talk is  a worldwide tour for your ears - minus the carbon footprint and lost luggage. Audio dramas from 9 creative teams around the globe will entertain as well as explore our climate crisis. And maybe even what could get us out.

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Written and directed by CARMEN AGUIRRE

Starring: 

MONTSERRAT VIDELA SAMPER as Esperanza Soto

LILI ROBINSON as The Drone Operator 

CHARLIE DEMERS as The Floor Supervisor and Friend

 

Sound design and music by JOELYSA PANKANEA 

Episode Produced by ELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE with support from SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS

Episode Producers CARLA RITCHIE and NATALIE LEFEBVRE GNAM

Episode Production Manager CARLA RITCHIE

Audio mixing by HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN

Recording engineer MONARCH STUDIOS 

Special thanks to BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver Cultural Services, Canada Council for the Arts, Monarch Studios, and Progress Lab

Electric Company Theatre acknowledge the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people. As artists who live, work and create on these lands, Electric Company strives to be allies with, to learn from and to acknowledge the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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Created by SUNNY DRAKE

Produced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRE

Lead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUV

Concept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONG

Impact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY 

Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN 

Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN

Series funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council

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