"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?
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The Forever Wave premiered on March 4 on KSFP 102.5 FM, broadcasting from Sutro Tower in San Francisco, 8-10 pm and has been on tour of community radio stations ever since.
Other broadcast partners have included 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 recently 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.
Currently you can catch The Forever Wave every other Sunday on KSFP 102.5 LP FM, time 5-7 pm.
Watch this space for information on future dates and our upcoming digital Fringe tour!
NEW DATE! Sunday, May 28, KSFP 102.5 LP FM, time 5-7 pm
NEW DATE! Sunday, June 11, KSFP 102.5 LP FM, time 5-7 pm
NEW DATE! Sunday, June 25, KSFP 102.5 LP FM, time 5-7 pm
CAST & CREW
CAST (bios here)
Roy Conboy
Jerikka Gamboa
Aaliyah Gilliard
Peter Griggs
Nathaniel Justiniano
Julia Letzel
Mia Paschal
Krystle Piamonte
Edna Mira Raia
Patrick Simms
Megan Trout
Lluis Valls
ADDITIONAL CAST FROM DEVELOPMENTAL READING
Hatem Adell
Jeremy Greco
Javier Stell-Frésquez
Sabrina Wenske
TECH SUPPORT
John Rock
Equipment loan: SFSU School of Theatre & Dance
This production was made possible in part by 3rd Street Emerging Artist’s Fund, Anonymous, Bikes to Books, Chris Bunting, Dianne Grimmett, Dot Janson, Scott Feeney, Steve Greenwood, and YOU
CREATIVE TEAM (bios here)
Nicole Gluckstern (Playwright, Director)
Cliff Caruthers (Sound Design)
Patrick Simms (Audio Engineer)
Nathan Link (Auxiliary Audio Engineer)
MUSIC CREDITS
“Esperanza,” by Banda Sin Nombre. Courtesy of the artists.
“The Gates/Take Me to the Water,” by Mark Growden. Courtesy of the artist.
POETRY CREDIT
“On Nua Beach,” by Roy Conboy. Courtesy of the artist.
MAP DESIGN
2012 Map of 200′ sea level rise co-created by Brian Stokle and Burrito Justice. Forever Wave Edit by Nicole Gluckstern and Burrito Justice.
CONSULTANTS
Hatem Adell
Jonathan Cordero
Julia Letzel
FIRST READERS
Michelle Carter
Megan Cohen
Anne Galjour