Coin Toss 談論他們的節目 FREAK OUT 的回歸！

Coin Toss Collective（Rosie Mullaney、Sophia Oriogun-Williams、Weronika Dwornik、Sol Woodroffe、Ben Notice、Alyssa Thomas、Claudia Zita Kurucz）透過「Made In Bristol」聚集在一起，這是在布里斯托老維克劇院為期一年的戲劇製作駐場演出。

Coin Toss Collective are returning to the Edinburgh Fringe with their show FREAK OUT!. We caught up with them to find out more about the show, and how it has evolved since its previous runs at Bristol Old Vic and VAULT Festival.

Coin Toss Collective 帶著他們的節目《FREAK OUT!》重返愛丁堡邊緣藝術節。我們採訪了他們，了解了有關該節目的更多信息，以及自上次在布里斯托爾老維克和 VAULT 音樂節上演以來它是如何演變的。

Hi Coin Toss. Thank you for taking the time to chat with us about FREAK OUT!. It’s a punchy title – could you tell us a bit more about the show’s name and premise?

嗨，拋硬幣。感謝您抽出寶貴時間與我們討論 FREAK OUT!。這是一個有力的標題——你能告訴我們更多關於該劇的名稱和前提嗎？

ROSIE: FREAK OUT! tells the story of a seaside town losing their homes to coastal erosion, accelerating due to climate change. At a fundraising party for a sea wall, difficult conversations rise to the surface as the local community slowly starts to fracture. It draws on research into affected communities by the University of East Anglia and incorporates interviews with people from affected areas. The show blends lots of genres, such as clowning, physical theatre and dance, audience interaction, interviews and archival video, into a high-energy, tragicomic theatrical cocktail. Things get very messy… literally. Without spoiling too much, a ticket to come and see FREAK OUT! also guarantees you a slice of cake and the opportunity to build a sandcastle on stage with us…

羅茜：嚇壞了！講述了一個海濱小鎮因氣候變遷加速海岸侵蝕而失去家園的故事。在一場海堤募款聚會上，隨著當地社區慢慢開始分裂，困難的對話浮現。它藉鑒了東安格利亞大學對受影響社區的研究，並納入了對受影響地區人們的訪談。該劇融合了小丑、形體戲劇和舞蹈、觀眾互動、訪談和檔案影片等多種流派，打造出充滿活力的悲喜劇戲劇雞尾酒。事情變得非常混亂......字面上。不劇透太多，一張票就可以來看《FREAK OUT》！也保證您能分得一杯羹，並有機會與我們一起在舞台上建造沙堡…

With the title, we had to decide this before we’d even made the show due to marketing deadlines! We had just started devising the show in our first R&D process (during the Made in Bristol theatre-making course at Bristol Old Vic we did together). At this stage, we had the basic premise of our show: Inside a house teetering on an eroding cliff edge, everyone parties while impending catastrophe lingers (literally) at its door. The title FREAK OUT! encapsulated this premise perfectly – both a homage to the iconic disco track ‘Le Freak’ by CHIC and a reflection of the characters’ descent into panic about their dire situation. 

由於行銷截止日期，我們必須在節目製作之前就決定這個標題！我們剛開始在我們的第一個研發過程中設計該節目（在布里斯托爾老維克的“布里斯托爾製造”戲劇製作課程期間，我們一起參加）。在這個階段，我們有了節目的基本前提：在一座在侵蝕的懸崖邊緣搖搖欲墜的房子裡，每個人都在聚會，而迫在眉睫的災難卻在門口徘徊。標題嚇壞了！完美地概括了這一前提——既是對 CHIC 標誌性迪斯科歌曲“Le Freak”的致敬，又反映了角色對自己的可怕處境陷入恐慌。

Coin Toss Collective have a “non-hierarchical” approach to devising theatre – what brought you all together to focus on the climate crisis?

Coin Toss Collective 採用「非等級」的方式來設計戲劇——是什麼讓你們聚集在一起關注氣候危機？

SOPHIA: In the initial R&D process, we all brought in different stimuli which inspired us at the time; one of those was a podcast episode ‘Apocalypse Creep’ by This American Life. In the episode we heard about a woman called Jane from a coastal community in Pacifica, California who woke up one morning and her back garden had been swept away with the cliff edge. What intrigued us most about this story was that two weeks earlier she had held an El Niño party. An El Niño year is when the storms are especially strong, having a knock-on effect, causing stronger currents and in theory making it more likely to tear away at the cliffs. Nevertheless, at the El Niño party and in the spirit of ‘theory rarely translates into practice’, the neighbours dressed up mockingly in floatation devices, sporting life jackets, rubber ducks and inflatable rings. We wanted to further explore the attitude of ‘it happens, but it won’t happen to me’, climate deniers, and the importance of community in the face of crisis.

SOPHIA：在最初的研發過程中，我們都引入了不同的刺激，當時為我們帶來了啟發；其中之一是《This American Life》的播客節目“Apocalypse Creep”。在這一集中，我們聽說了一位來自加州帕西菲卡沿海社區的名叫簡的婦女，有一天早上醒來，發現她的後花園被懸崖邊緣沖走了。這個故事最讓我們感興趣的是她兩週前舉辦了一場厄爾尼諾派對。厄爾尼諾年是風暴特別強烈的一年，會產生連鎖反應，引起更強的水流，理論上更有可能撕裂懸崖。然而，在厄爾尼諾聚會上，本著「理論很少轉化為實踐」的精神，鄰居嘲笑地穿著漂浮裝置、運動救生衣、橡皮鴨和充氣圈。我們想進一步探討「它發生了，但它不會發生在我身上」、氣候否認者的態度，以及社區在危機面前的重要性。

What kind of response does FREAK OUT! offer to the climate crisis?

FREAK OUT 會帶來什麼樣的反應！為氣候危機提供什麼？

WERONIKA: We observed a disconnect between the story of climate change in the UK, which frames it as a concerning but not urgent issue, and the reality of it. Why aren’t we freaking out? Why aren’t we discussing how the UK needs to adapt to this challenge? Every crisis is, in part, a storytelling crisis. We are hemmed in by stories that prevent us from seeing the reality of the situation. Climate change is a global issue already manifesting locally, and just like in other places in the world, those at the forefront of it are already on society’s periphery. We want to bring urgency to the conversation about climate change in the UK and advocate for more radical action and timely adaptation.  

WERONIKA：我們觀察到英國的氣候變遷故事與現實之間存在脫節，英國將其描述為一個令人擔憂但並不緊迫的問題。我們為什麼不驚慌失措？我們為什麼不討論英國需要如何適應這項挑戰呢？從某種程度上來說，每一次危機都是一場說故事的危機。我們被故事所包圍，使我們看不見現實。氣候變遷是一個全球性問題，已經在當地顯現出來，就像在世界其他地方一樣，那些處於氣候變遷最前沿的人已經處於社會的邊緣。我們希望讓英國關於氣候變遷的對話變得緊迫，並倡導採取更激進的行動和及時的適應。

FREAK OUT! confronts the audience with the knowledge that soon, we will all be in the same situation as the residents of Portsford unless we get to work and demand change, and here in the UK, we do have the opportunity to do that! We are one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases so when in the show we speak about communities within the UK asking for compensation, we hope the audience will transpose the conversation around loss and damage into a global context. 

嚇壞了！讓觀眾知道，很快，我們都將處於與樸茨福德居民相同的境地，除非我們開始工作並要求改變，而在英國，我們確實有機會做到這一點！我們是最大的溫室氣體排放國之一，因此當我們在節目中談到英國境內的社區要求賠償時，我們希望觀眾能夠將圍繞損失和損害的對話轉移到全球背景下。

Could you tell us a bit about why having a UK setting was important to you?

您能告訴我們為什麼英國的環境對您很重要嗎？

SOPHIA: A quick Google search and you can find out that the UK has one of the fastest eroding coastlines in Europe. It was important for us to localise our play to the UK because telling the story of coastal erosion happening in the States didn’t feel like our story to tell and less relevant to UK audiences. The effect of the climate catastrophe is not just something that happens to other countries and if audiences could leave the show thinking about how it also affects their neighbour, then perhaps it would inspire some urgency.

索菲亞：在Google上快速搜尋一下，你會發現英國是歐洲海岸線侵蝕最快的國家之一。對我們來說，將戲劇在地化到英國非常重要，因為講述發生在美國的海岸侵蝕的故事感覺不像我們要講的故事，而且與英國觀眾的相關性也較小。氣候災難的影響不僅發生在其他國家，如果觀眾在看完節目後能夠思考它如何影響他們的鄰國，那麼也許會激發一些緊迫感。

This production has run twice now, once at Bristol Old Vic and once at VA

該作品現已上演兩次，一次在布里斯托爾老維克，一次在維吉尼亞州