A solo storytelling show that utilizes comedic monologue to interrogate capitalism, climate change, and humanity’s continuing reticence to save ourselves from extinction (fun!). 

Ten Thousand Things had its workshop premiere in April 2024 at the Sunset Theatre in Wells, BC as part of their Exploration Series. It will formally premiere in fall of 2025.

Synopsis

Though we don’t talk about it much at dinner parties, surveys of scientific experts, and the worldwide population, agree humans have less than 200 years left on Earth. Whether that's true or not, it's on everyone's mind, which prompts the question the show begins with: what would a change actually look like? Ten Thousand Things investigates how our economic and political systems commodify people, but also, in more nuanced ways, our most meaningful forms of self-expression. As intimacy, art, and love, get more and more linked to commerce, people react by distrusting the sincerity of the world around them. The show argues for a trade-in: switching our current language around climate change for one that actually aligns with reality.