Art and the Climate Crisis

Fehinti Balogun is an actor, theatre maker and an activist. As an actor he has worked in theatre, film and television, with recent performances in The Blue Door at Bath Theatre Royal, BBC Radio 4s retelling of Oliver Twist and the new BBC HBO drama I May Destroy You. Alongside his acting career, he delivers talks on climate change aimed at a more rounded inclusion in the conversation which he is adapting into a play with Complicité theatre company . As a result of these talks he has toured around London and south England discussing climate change and taking part in international climate discussions.

April De Angelis is an acclaimed writer whose extensive theatre work includes MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, a two part dramatization of Elena Ferrantes’ epic family saga (Rose Theatre Kingston and National Theatre); AFTER ELECTRA (Theatre Royal Plymouth & Tricycle Theatre); RUNE (New Vic Theatre Stoke); GASTRONAUTS (Royal Court Upstairs); JUMPY (Royal Court & Duke of York’s Theatre, Melbourne and Sydney); an adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Birmingham Rep); A LAUGHING MATTER (Out of Joint at National Theatre); A WARWICKSHIRE TESTIMONY (RSC); THE POSITIVE HOUR (Out of Joint at Hampstead Theatre); PLAYHOUSE CREATURES (revived at Chichester Festival Theatre); and THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FANNY HILL (revived at the Bristol Old Vic).

April has also written the libretto for FLIGHT music by Jonathan Dove, for Glyndebourne Opera; THE SILENT TWINS libretto, which was set to music by Errollyn Wallen, Almeida Theatre, 2007; and THE DAY AFTER at the ENO, 2017.

April’s work for radio includes an adaptation of LIFE IN THE TOMB for BBC Radio 3 in 2014, a serialisation of PEYTON PLACE, VISITANTS for BBC Radio 4, and THE OUTLANDER for Radio 5, which won the Writer's Guild Award in 1992.

TV work includes a BFI / Channel 4 commission, ARISTOPHANES.