Andrew Revkin & The Columbia Earth Institute
present
A Sunday Brunch Reading of
Theatre Three Collaborative’s

OTHER THAN WE
Written & Directed by KAREN MALPEDE
Music & Narration by ARTHUR ROSEN

Featuring
GEORGE BARTENIEFF, EMILY FURY DALY, BETH MALONE, & TOMMIE J. MOORE

http://j.mp/sustainwhatlive

July 26, 2020 10:30 a.m.

This eco-feminist futuristic dystopian cli-fi fable is harrowing, largely because it is insane yet believable in light of today’s world.

After the Deluge, the privileged and their essential works live in a domed community, isolated from the outside world’s toxicity and ruin. Their water table is running out, as is the food supply. Hate crimes and violence are rising. Big Brother is always listening and watching.

Women’s eggs are harvested, joined with sperm in petri dishes, then multiples are implanted in suitable wombs. Once females are “used up”, they disappear. Two women, an obstetrician and her lover, a neuroscientist, are plotting something as they watch the dome world deteriorate. Joining forces with a refugee janitor from “somewhere else”, they evolve a plan to create a new species. A species beyond Homo sapiens. The elderly scholar Opa is enlisted to provide education for the new creatures, whatever they may be.

This 90-minute production is gripping, drawing the viewer into the dilemma of motherhood in an inhuman world. Inhuman because people have lost their humanity. Empathy and love have been subsumed by hate and rage. Is a future even possible? And if it is possible, is it desirable? What is out there in the dark? They must embrace the idea that hope still exists as they step into the unknown.

Wonderful, solid, believable performances by the cast make this more than memorable.

-Karen D’Onofrio-