Fire Season

Fire Season is a live, immersive audiowalk exploring the emotional experience of living through climate change, produced by Los Angeles-based theatre collaborative Capital W. Dramatic tension winds through a collection of essays, reflections, and reworked myths that guests listen to over local FM waves while they traverse a park that is the site of a wildfire burn scar. Little do they know the writer and performer is broadcasting live from inside the park until she invites them to meet, in person, for a final story, told in a circle that echoes a campfire. 

Monica conceived, wrote, and performed Fire Season, drawing upon personal history as well as extensive research into fire science, geology, natural history, and myth. Her writing transformed an issue typically understood intellectually, through the head, into one explored through both the heart and the body. 

Fire Season also involved a take-home component: Monica created a lushly designed, collage-based, fold-out map that included suggestions for battling climate change at the personal and system levels. Guests were given a postcard (along with sample text) to send to a lawmaker; if they committed to writing it before they left the show site, Capital W paid for postage.

Fire Season has toured to Denver, Colorado as part of the Denver Film Festival and is available for touring. More information at www.capitalwperformance.com.