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From Fact to Fiction: What do you think about the planet, mum?

What do you think about the planet, mum?

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A mum writes to her daughter about her adventures at COP26. By Travis Alabanza.

Irn Bru and Barack Obama: a mum writes to her daughter about her unexpected adventures as a COP26 delegate. By Travis Alabanza.

In the week that COP26 draws to a close, Travis Alabanza imagines the impact of the climate conference on a mum and her daughter.  

Lisa unexpectedly gets a chance to leave her native Bristol and travel to Glasgow for COP26.  On the closing day she begins an exchange of letters with her daughter Hope about her impressions of the past fortnight and what it might mean for families like theirs.  There's a goodie bag, Irn Bru on tap, and she gets close enough to Barack Obama to examine his teeth, but will Hope be reassured by all this, and by plans to build eco-friendly prisons?  

A funny and poignant story of love and conversation, across the generations, between mother and daughter.  

Readers...Christine Kavanagh and Karis Crawford
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

Travis is an award-winning writer, performer and theatre maker. Their work surrounds gender, trans identity and race and has been described as 'mesmerising' (The Guardian) and 'the future of theatre' by the Evening Standard, which also listed them as one of the 25 most influential under-twenty-five year olds in 2019. 

Bernardine Evaristo described them as a 'cultural change maker of tomorrow'.  Pink News said 'There aren't enough stars in the universe to put on Travis Alabanza's (show) 'Burgerz'.' (On their show 'Overflow') 'Alabanza’s funny, tender study of allyship and the bravery of being who you are could become a future classic. “
– Evening Standard

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