Five Lines review – mini dystopia projects maximum climate catastrophe
Barbican, London
Frau Trapp’s show, which uses tiny models seen on a huge screen, explores eco-disaster and inequality
Presented by MimeLondon, this hybrid show plays out as micro-cinema-theatre, with a miniature world projected on a big screen. It begins as a romance, with a couple meeting in a bar, then spirals into an authoritarian dystopia.
The story is set in the future but its world is recognisable as our own, with a government in denial about climate damage even as temperatures rise and water resources become depleted. Environmental catastrophe reduces the planet to rubble and leads to the creation of an underworld called Top Official Protection Oasis (TOPO), which is advertised as a shiny, custom-made utopia for all but only serves certain echelons of society.
At the Pit, Barbican, London, until 1 February
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