Come Along for the Ride: A Journey Through Climate Grief
Climate play delivers humor and hope that are inspiring in the face of timely issues
[Washington, DC, March 2025] Come Along for the Ride: A Journey Through Climate Grief is a timely play that opened on March 1 to a full house at the Atlas Performing Arts Center as part of their 2025 INTERSECTIONS Festival. The play follows the lives of two women navigating life with climate anxiety. One character, Sophie, is a millennial woman living her best life in New York City while also dealing with the challenges of modern dating and climbing the corporate ladder. The other character, a pregnant Mariam, is an immigrant that traces her migration story to climate change and is terrified of the world into which she is about to bring her child.
The play follows the journey of the women as it toggles between 2024 and a dystopian 2074.
Eco.Logic’s Executive Director Rozina Kanchwala wrote her debut play, a climate comedy, Love in the Time of Climate Change that drew inspiration from her own life as she channeled her frustrations from everything ranging from modern dating to climate anxiety into her play. This play was also performed in Washington DC in 2019 first at the Fringe Festival and then in 2020 at the INTERSECTIONS Festival to sold out audiences.
About her second play, Kanchwala says, “Theater allows me to blend humor with raw emotion to explore complex issues without feeling overbearing. This play gives voice to the anxieties that so many of us experience and creates space to process those anxieties, while finding solace in each other and ultimately envisioning a future where we can thrive in an uncertain world.”
This production marks the directorial debut of Ranjani Prabhakar, an environmental advocate and multidisciplinary artist and musician whose background shapes the play into an evocative exploration. “As a first-time director, I approached it as an extension of my work as a musician; using sound, pacing, and movement to take audiences from the weight of the crisis to the lightness of kinship and solidarity,” says Prabhakar.
Come Along for the Ride covers a lot in 80 minutes and has elements of lightness, humor,
and hope that are needed for this moment. Commiserate, laugh, and build community at the play, coming to the DC Arts Center April 5 and 6 and the Raven Theater in Chicago, IL June 27-29. The play is produced by Eco.Logic, an environmental education nonprofit that uses art to inspire environmental action.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: https://www.ecologicprograms.org/ecotheater