The Forever Wave, a radio play

"If you survive the apocalypse, don't you get to help build what comes after it?"

Inspired by Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, The Forever Wave reconceptualizes Thomas’ play for a climate ravaged near-future. Set in a drowned Bay Area, circa 2070, The Forever Wave imagines the survivors of this water-logged world as occupying the tops of hills, individual islands jutting up from a climate-change induced tide that rolled in one day and never rolled out.

What communities will emerge in a future where our systems have collapsed and our “normal” is a historical relic? What can the hilltop-dwellers of the future teach us about ourselves in the now? And what are the things we can start building in order to avoid their fate?

The Forever Wave premiered on March 4 on KSFP 102.5 FM, broadcasting from Sutro Tower in San Francisco and toured the Bay Area’s community radio stations until August 27, 2023, including BFF.fm, RadioValencia.fm, KACR-LPFM 96.1 FM, Alameda, KWMR, Point Reyes Station/West Marin, KSFS Radio, San Francisco, and KALW 91.7 FM. We were a featured performance for International Dylan Thomas Day, paying homage to the 70th anniversary of the date that Under Milk Wood was first read onstage in 1953.

From September 2023-March 2024, The Forever Wave was presented at the Philly Fringe, Melbourne Fringe, and New Zealand Fringe Festivals as a digital offering. In October 2024, we had our first in-person listening party at the San Francisco Public Library Koret Auditorium, hosted by the SFPL Environmental Center.

Through May 2026, The Forever Wave is a featured audio play at the Atlanta Fringe Festival/Fringe Audio showcase. Visit their website to listen anytime, or as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and so on.

Read reviews and articles about The Forever Wave here.

CAST & CREW