Global Warming is Gay

Has your carbon footprint being weighing heavy on your conscience like a dark, acidic raincloud? And have you ever rolled down your car window and not recognised the Earth outside? Why not take advantage of our limited time offer and stamp out these niggling worries once and for all. Remember, you pay later so your planet doesn’t have to.

Global Warming is Gay is Edinburgh’s limited-time offer to take a step back from all these trendy climate issues and consider from a distance the band of sanctified green addicts who are becoming intoxicated on a certain convenient truth. The play’s title doesn’t give away the fact that this is actually quite a witty, tasteful production that ever-so-gently knocks the absurd seriousness of some high order activists.

If it’s green, it’s gorgeous for Andy Orbison, the doe-eyed younger brother of a Green Party MSP. Vacuous, bourgeoise ladies flock to him like pigeons to a church, loudly cooing for a cause in life, and Andy has enough raisons d’etre to save the world twice over. With their loving support he manages to construct an Edenic home tallying energy consumption levels 99 per cent below the national average, but things start to get a bit sticky when Daddy’s funds run dry.

Global Warming is Gay is a naughty little number that rapid-fires lines like “campaigning has so many fronts that you can never get bored,” but the characters are so sunny and the dialogue so consistently funny that even the most mental of environmentalists will be charmed into shelving their qualms for its duration. A breath of fresh air.