A razor-sharp powerplay about the dark arts of marketing behind climate denial.
It’s 1977. Glenn has a crisis on his hands. He’s had a successful career as a marketing executive for a major Oil company, selling the fuel that powers the American Dream. Now he’s waking up to the damage it’s doing to the climate. In a secret meeting he consults with Bud, a slick young talent from the Tobacco industry, to figure out how to sell a toxic product … and how to live with yourself if you succeed.
Compelling, unnerving, and piercingly relevant, Smokescreen is a psychologically charged battle of wits that reveals how the climate crisis we face today was shaped by the invisible hands of Ad men.
Searing performances by Damon Baudin (Boys on the Verge of Tears, Romeo and Julie), and Christopher Samuel Carroll (I Have No Enemies, The Cadaver Palaver) collide in a pressure-cooker of manipulation, morality, and earth-shattering choices about controlling the narrative while the planet burns.
Running for 6 performances only at fortyfivedownstairs in the CBD, this powerful Melbourne premiere is not to be missed! Tickets now selling.
Bare Witness Theatre Company is a Canberra-based company led by Christopher Samuel Carroll, producing physically charged, tourable theatre that draws on the full resources of the actor’s craft. As artists based in the nation’s capital they believe in the need for challenging, politically conscious theatre that confronts the major issues of our time through the lens of the human experience. They make theatre that matters.
