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Hurricane Diane’s Exploration of Discomfort, Capitalism, and Our Climate Crisis

Madeline George’s 2017 play lays bare a difficult reality: that any meaningful action on climate change will be uncomfortable, that it’s dangerous to avoid discomfort, and that there are many for whom comfort is the only thing they can cling to in the boxed in world of late capitalism.