Leo Murray

Australian playwright David Finnigan's Scenes from the Climate Era is a controversial and exciting new work exploring climate change's impacts and trajectories through a series of postmodern vignettes. This production combined pedagogical inquiry and practice-based innovation to explore how the original black box theatre staging at Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, could be reimagined into an immerse multimedia experience. Murdoch University's final year Theatre and Creative Production students performed in-the-round in a white box Sound Stage illuminated by three sides of original video scenography created by Dannon Wu. Research outcomes include new scenographic methods incorporating historical footage, animation, soundscape by Leo Murray and lighting by Tim Brain to enhance the audience's sensory experience of the play and its ecological messaging.