Writer's Note from Flora Wilson Brown

"If we look after each other, we can still make the future beautiful."

Writer's Note
by Flora Wilson Brown 

I started writing this play as a place to put all my climate grief - my worries and fears for the future. I felt really small in the face of it, how huge and unknowable it was, and how little I felt I could do to control it. 

I started thinking about how people might exist in the far future and how the effects of climate change might be felt in the immediate future, in places I’ve lived and to people I know. I’d read about Eunice Foote years ago and I’d always known I wanted to write about her, about the struggle of being a woman in that era, and the horrible irony of how things might have been different if she’d been recognised in her own time. Slowly the three worlds came together, firstly through images, then moments of dialogue, and then finally characters. 

I knew early on that humour would be a crucial part of this play, I wanted the audience to fall in love with the characters, and I’ve always thought the most effective way to do that is to make people laugh. I wanted all the characters to feel like people you might know, even if they’re far removed in time. Really, I wrote this play to feel less alone, to remind myself that if we look after each other, we can still make the future beautiful.