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It's not easy being green, especially for Mona, a diehard environmental activist sentenced to a year of house arrest for her topless vandalism at the Global Climate March. Exiled from her commune co-op, Mona is forced to serve her sentence back home with her well-meaning parents and annoyed younger sibling who just want to enjoy their coffee pods and Amazon packages in peace. But when Mona's tyrannical green crusade engulfs the entire household, her family spirals into a hilarious and chaotic maelstrom of hypocrisy, guilt, and generational finger-pointing, ultimately asking themselves what's more unbearable: an ecological collapse or each other?
Hurricane Mona is an outrageous and arresting comedy about the collisions of Boomer complacency, Millennial disillusionment, and Gen Z apathy in the face of climate catastrophe. Complete with a giant talking frog, a psychedelic mushroom trip, and some hairy activism, Pippa Mackie's riotous rallying cry delivers big laughs and even bigger questions about the mess we're leaving behind and who's left to clean it up.
• Mackie is a climate activist who once covered herself in molasses and pretended to die on the beach at an anti-oil tanker demonstration, and starred in a viral YouTube skit called Weathergirl Goes Rogue, which has 2.2 million views.
• Hurricane Mona was first produced by Touchstone Theatre and Ruby Slippers Theatre at the Cultch Historic Theatre in Vancouver, BC, from November 18 to December 3, 2023.
After a topless protest at the Global Climate March, radical eco-activist Mona is sentenced to a year of house arrest with her coffee-pod-loving parents and fed-up younger sibling. But as Mona's relentless eco-crusade takes over the entire household, her family is swept into a hilarious and chaotic cyclone of hypocrisy, guilt, and anxiety. How can they survive an ecological collapse if they can't even survive each other? Hurricane Mona is an outrageous comedy about generational conflict amidst an impending climate disaster. Complete with a giant talking frog, a mushroom trip, and some hairy activism, this rallying cry delivers big laughs and even bigger questions about the messes we leave behind.
A relentless eco-activist creates family chaos amidst a climate disaster.
"A comedy about the climate crisis? You've got to be kidding. But playwright Pippa Mackie isn't kidding and yet Hurricane Mona is very funny."
"Pippa Mackie has balanced a deeply personal and contemporary story with a dash of political commentary and absurd comedy . . . Eco-anxiety, a sense of doom and utter outrage at the lack of systemic redress towards climate justice are tackled with dark humor and magical realism."
Hurricane Mona is an outrageous and arresting comedy about the collisions of Boomer complacency, Millennial disillusionment, and Gen Z apathy in the face of climate catastrophe. Complete with a giant talking frog, a psychedelic mushroom trip, and some hairy activism, Pippa Mackie's riotous rallying cry delivers big laughs and even bigger questions about the mess we're leaving behind and who's left to clean it up.
• Mackie is a climate activist who once covered herself in molasses and pretended to die on the beach at an anti-oil tanker demonstration, and starred in a viral YouTube skit called Weathergirl Goes Rogue, which has 2.2 million views.
• Hurricane Mona was first produced by Touchstone Theatre and Ruby Slippers Theatre at the Cultch Historic Theatre in Vancouver, BC, from November 18 to December 3, 2023.
After a topless protest at the Global Climate March, radical eco-activist Mona is sentenced to a year of house arrest with her coffee-pod-loving parents and fed-up younger sibling. But as Mona's relentless eco-crusade takes over the entire household, her family is swept into a hilarious and chaotic cyclone of hypocrisy, guilt, and anxiety. How can they survive an ecological collapse if they can't even survive each other? Hurricane Mona is an outrageous comedy about generational conflict amidst an impending climate disaster. Complete with a giant talking frog, a mushroom trip, and some hairy activism, this rallying cry delivers big laughs and even bigger questions about the messes we leave behind.
A relentless eco-activist creates family chaos amidst a climate disaster.
"A comedy about the climate crisis? You've got to be kidding. But playwright Pippa Mackie isn't kidding and yet Hurricane Mona is very funny."
"Pippa Mackie has balanced a deeply personal and contemporary story with a dash of political commentary and absurd comedy . . . Eco-anxiety, a sense of doom and utter outrage at the lack of systemic redress towards climate justice are tackled with dark humor and magical realism."