CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SMALL TALK:
EPISODE NINE: IN THE DUMPS BY SHAUNTAY GRANT
SUNNY DRAKE: You’re listening to Climate Change & Other Small Talk. A worldwide theatrical journey for your ears - minus the carbon footprint and lost luggage. 9 creative teams from around the world share entertaining audio dramas to explore our climate mess. And what could get us out.
After all these episodes, I’m still Sunny Drake and I’m delighted you’re still on this journey with us. We’re at our final episode –I can’t believe we made it right around the globe, to land in Kjipuktuk, otherwise known as Halifax, on Canada’s east coast. Our finale is made by Zuppa and written by Shauntay Grant. Shauntay is an award-winning playwright, poet, and children’s author. I wanted to work with her because she’s one of those rare creators who manages to be accessible, engaging and deeply informed by research - not an easy feat.
For this final leg of our trip, I’m wondering if you’ve ever taken off on a journey and not known quite how to get there? Or even exactly where you were going? We’ve seen through our previous episodes that we need such a huge scale of action all across the world to address climate change. And sometimes we just need to get moving, even though we’re not 100% clear on the details. Ready to make it up and change course as we go.
In that spirit, let’s see what happens when a father drags his eleven-year-old son on a mysterious road trip in Nova Scotia.
Get ready for “In the Dumps” by Shauntay Grant.
OUTRO
SUNNY DRAKE: That was the final episode of Climate Change & Other Small Talk, “In The Dumps”, Written by Shauntay Grant and Directed by Mike Payette.
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Today’s episode, In the Dumps, starred:
Jacob Sampson as Dad
and Ny Langdon as Nate
with
Liliona Quarmyne as Mom
Ben Stone as the Security Guard
Sound design, music and audio mixing by Jackson Fairfax-Perry
Dramaturgy by Jacob Sampson and Myekah Payne
Episode Produced by ZUPPA and with support from Sunny Drake Productions
Episode Producer & Production Manager Ben Stone
Recording engineers: Ben Creelman at Village Sound, Jackson Fairfax-Perry and Luke Batiot
Special thanks to Arts Nova Scotia, and Halifax Culture and Events. ACTRA Maritimes and The Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.
And the series Climate Change & Other Small Talk is:
Created by me, 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 & Richard Feren
Special thanks to our series funding bodies: Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council. And to so many others who you can check out on the website. It truly does take a village to raise a podcast.
In the Dumps was produced in Kjipuktuk / Halifax,which is in Mi’kma'ki / Nova Scotia,
the territory of the Mi’kmaq.
What a journey this has been - thanks so much for sharing it with us, and for adding your voice to our featured climate campaigns. Take the very best care of wonderful yourselves, your beloved communities and our precious planet.