Event: The Illinois Wesleyan University Environmental Studies Program and Student Senate present: “What’s Funny About Climate Change?”
Date: Feb. 25, 2003 (Tuesday)
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Hansen Student Center, Illinois Wesleyan University, 300 E. Beecher St., Bloomington
Admission: Free, open to the public
Background: “What’s Funny About Climate Change?,” a three-person comedy review, is a production of northwestern California’s Human Nature. A company that has toured comedy shows across the United States and Europe, Human Nature addresses pressing environmental and social issues. Ross Gelbspan, author of The Heat is On, one of the definitive texts on global warming to date, comments on Human Nature’s “ability to cast so troubling a story into such an engaging and, at times, hysterically funny a format.”
The show’s humor emerges from examining the gap between current human responses to global warming and those that might actually make a difference. “A lot of people, understandably, would just as soon not hear the news,” said the company’s writer David Simpson. “What we’re offering is a relatively painless extraction of decaying rationales. It’s the sickness that robs us of hope, not the cure.”
Contact: For additional information, contact the Illinois Wesleyan Student Senate office at (309) 556-3189.
