Back to Terra Firma
The UK is divided into two powerful cities and sprawling cooperative farmlands. When city woman Ollie visits the Farmland to sell medicine to official James, an unusual love story begins, complicated by the radicalised boy who fell on terra firma from the sky and has been taken in for rehabilitation.
Set in a speculative but familiar version of England, Back to Terra Firma is a darkly comic love story about how people save others and themselves set against a backdrop of rural health / climate poverty and urban pressure. It hasn’t rained for three years…
Based on a ‘what if?’ premise of how environmental and societal conditions might evolve, this one-act play tackles the themes of urban / rural division, climate and healthcare sustainability via the meeting of two opposing lifestyles and love-interests.