The LAVA Center
The Time Is Now play festival
Oct 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Repeat 10/25/2025 @ 7 p.m. ; Repeat 10/26/2025
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street Greenfield, MA 01301
Performance times:
Friday 7 p.m. RESILIENCE
“Science is Dead!”, “Consultation”, and “We’re Running Out of Chairs” dir. Ash Goverman Saturday 7 p.m. URGENCY
“Space Cat”, “Appreciation”, and “Six Polar Bears Fell Out of the Sky” dir. Kiersten Samalis Sunday 2 p.m. HOPE
“A Letter From the Ocean”, “The Mermaid”, and “All Its Tainted Glory” dir. Penney Hulten
The LAVA Center presents a 3-day festival of short climate change plays October 24, 25, and 26. Each performance date will center around a different theme: resilience, urgency, and hope. These themes will structure the weekend as we explore them through play readings, public discussion, and a small workshop. The Time Is Now acts as an avenue for a larger discussion to create ripple effects throughout the Greenfield community and Pioneer Valley. Participation by the audience members is invited but not mandatory. Light refreshments will be provided after the performances. The performances can be accessed online for purchase for one month after the festival on The LAVA Center’s website.
The plays come from Climate Change Theatre Action, a worldwide festival of short plays about the climate crisis presented biennially to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings as well as from LAVA’s locally produced climate change theater initiatives.”
Sliding scale $5-$15, with $1-2 Card to Culture
Friday 7 p.m. RESILIENCE
“Science is Dead!” by David Geary
“Consultation” by Dylan Van Den Berg
“We’re Running Out of Chairs” by Kirby Vicente
Directed by Ash Goverman
Performed by Kendra Corrie, Barbara Friend, Holly Sroka, Clara Witty
Saturday 7 p.m. URGENCY
“Space Cat” by Lewis Hetherington
“Appreciation” by Katie Pearl
“Six Polar Bears Fell Out of the Sky” by Alister Emerson
Directed by Kiersten Samalis
Performed by Kendra Corrie, Barbara Friend, Priscilla Mollard, Lisa Ranghelli, Holly Sroka
Sunday 2 p.m. HOPE
“A Letter From the Ocean” by Caridad Svich
“The Mermaid” by Nikhil Katara
“All Its Tainted Glory” by Georgina HL Escobar
Directed by Penney Hulten
Performed by Guy Fiero, Trouble Mandeson, Priscilla Mollard, Holly Sroka, Charmaine Sutton
This program is made possible by funding from Greening Greenfield and Mass Humanities. We are partially ADA compliant: our entire facility (including accessible, gender-inclusive bathroom) is on the ground floor. We strive to make our programming and events accessible to the widest possible range of community members. To inquire about accessibility, email info@thelavacenter.org.
https://thelavacenter.org/events/climate-change-theatre-action-the-time-is-now/