An edited version of this piece originally appeared on artsHub.
One of the first
productions I saw at Griffin
was Ian Meadows’ Between
Two Waves, a finely-wrought and emotional play about the personal toll
of climate change. Four years later, Stephen Carleton’s
Griffin-award-winning The
Turquoise Elephant, is a play about climate change, egos, and running
out of time; it explodes onto Griffin’s tiny stage with as much verve, farce,
panache and delicious wickedness as it can muster, and it is in may ways both
the antithesis and dark mirror of Meadows’ play, as well as being a darkly comic
piece of absurdist mastery in the vein of Ionesco.
