What does it mean to not live a traumatic event but feel it in oneself? In December 2019, coronavirus was a far away problem; here we are now in 2020 in the middle of a global pandemic, symptomatic of an ever worsening climate crisis. Artists have been forced to ask the question: How can we continue to tell stories in the ever oppressive context of climate change? In order to respond, Séismes, a dream epic that mixes text in three languages with dance, and that traverses countries and dimensions, calls for a theatre of the 21st century that valorizes hybridization.

​Liberally inspired by Après le tremblement de terre by Haruki Murakami, this play by Sean Hardy is the third production of the Summertide Company.

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