#NoExemptions
No amount of privilege can protect anyone from the consequences.
In the not too distant future, global environmental collapse triggers wars,
the movement of millions of people, failure of mass food production and the breakdown of democracies. But this story focuses on one woman’s
desperate struggle to survive.
Maria lives in a city plagued by chronic food and water shortages. Now
it is survival of the fittest and young people have the competitive advantage.
The controlling gang has made the brutal decision that non-essential
people over 50 years old must be rounded up, deported and killed. Maria
is trapped in her apartment with her husband Paul and their neighbor, Ewa.
Their last moments are a bitter competition for food and water. But Maria
refuses to give up. Maria plans her escape. She needs to see her son one last
time. And when she does – nothing is as she wished.
#NOEXEMPTIONS is a play about the last ninety minutes of one woman’s life. This is future environmental Armageddon as experienced by one family, in one city, at one time. It is a mother’s lament, a poet’s surrender, a child’s rebellion and a narcissist’s appreciation of good lipstick…In this crisis we see the humour of what we value at the end, the strength of our love for each other and the tragic consequences of old mistakes.
#NoExemptions explores a dystopian vision for humanity that is not predictable, but a savage critique of current privilege and inequality—with a twist- and not without humour. Told from the intimacy of one family’s crisis and isolation, the play is a compacted moment in time in which unfolding events are the result of an already projected environmental collapse from climate change, pollution and over consumption. No amount of privilege can protect anyone from the consequences. #NoExemptions is a bold, confronting and provocative statement of human equality. We all share one world
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