"We all know about climate change. We all know it's important. We all know it might end life as we know it. We all know it's hot. But what do we make of this? In many ways we are sick to death of hearing about it. We want to get on with living our lives. The point of The Temperature's Rising is to describe these lives. To explore what it means to be living in the world at this time and in this situation. The series explores the importance of adapting to climate change and the difficulties in doing so, on a personal, everyday, immediate level and in distinctive and offbeat ways."
An overall scenario for the set is an urban street / lane that allows transition from outside café seating to inside café and provides a series of urban fragments that introduce further narrative potentials of the street.
These urban fragments including a lamppost, metro train sign, bus stop sign, advertising hoarding, ticket window, bench seat mesh fence and steps. We imagine that props such as a shopping trolley, rubbish bin, construction equipment and bicycles would be used in conjunction with the set to contexualise scenes and characters.