SCARLET is a contemporary science-fiction climate change parable about what happens when a planet takes too long and has no good options left. A unique synthesis of found sounds, pop/rock and contemporary musical theatre, ‘Scarlet’ evokes a world reliant on machines and a longing for humanity to save it.

STORYLINE

Hundreds of years ago, the world’s leaders came together and tried a more dramatic approach to curbing global warming: they pumped sun-reflecting particles into the air.

It worked, but too well—the sky became an opaque gray, shutting out the sun completely and creating a global tundra. Now, hundreds of years later, civilization has all but ended and the Commonwealth is what remains of humanity. Run by the no-nonsense war vet Mesh and her Council, the Commonwealth is a city-state founded on the tenets of hard work and rational survival.

Scarlet, Mesh’s younger sister, is a Junior Captain at the Greenhouse, the last remaining food production facility in the world. It’s an important job, but she can’t help feeling that there should be more to life. When Scarlet stumbles upon a meeting of the Solists, an underground cult who believes in a mystical being called Father Sun that lay just beyond the tarp of the sky, she finds herself torn between her family, a centuries-old conspiracy, and the promise of saving her world.