Coin Toss 谈论他们的节目 FREAK OUT 的回归！

Coin Toss Collective（Rosie Mullaney、Sophia Oriogun-Williams、Weronika Dwornik、Sol Woodroffe、Ben Notice、Alyssa Thomas、Claudia Zita Kurucz）通过“Made In Bristol”聚集在一起，这是在布里斯托老维克剧院为期一年的戏剧制作驻场演出。

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 带着他们的节目《FREAK OUT!》重返爱丁堡边缘艺术节。我们采访了他们，了解了有关该节目的更多信息，以及自上次在布里斯托尔老维克和 VAULT 音乐节上演以来它是如何演变的。

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，抛硬币。感谢您抽出宝贵时间与我们讨论 FREAK OUT!。这是一个有力的标题——你能告诉我们更多关于该剧的名称和前提吗？

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…

罗茜：吓坏了！讲述了一个海滨小镇因气候变化而加速海岸侵蚀而失去家园的故事。在一场海堤筹款聚会上，随着当地社区慢慢开始分裂，困难的对话浮出水面。它借鉴了东安格利亚大学对受影响社区的研究，并纳入了对受影响地区人们的采访。该剧融合了小丑、形体戏剧和舞蹈、观众互动、采访和档案视频等多种流派，打造出一场充满活力的悲喜剧戏剧鸡尾酒。事情变得非常混乱......字面上。不剧透太多，一张票就可以来看《FREAK OUT》！还保证您能分得一杯羹，并有机会与我们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. 

由于营销截止日期，我们必须在节目制作之前就决定这个标题！我们刚刚开始在我们的第一个研发过程中设计该节目（在布里斯托尔老维克的“布里斯托尔制造”戏剧制作课程期间，我们一起参加）。在这个阶段，我们有了节目的基本前提：在一座在侵蚀的悬崖边缘摇摇欲坠的房子里，每个人都在聚会，而迫在眉睫的灾难却在门口徘徊。标题吓坏了！完美地概括了这一前提——既是对 CHIC 标志性迪斯科歌曲“Le Freak”的致敬，又反映了角色对其可怕处境的恐慌。

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 采用“非等级”的方式来设计戏剧——是什么让你们聚集在一起关注气候危机？

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：在最初的研发过程中，我们都引入了不同的刺激，当时给我们带来了启发；其中之一是《This American Life》的播客节目“Apocalypse Creep”。在这一集中，我们听说了一位来自加利福尼亚州帕西菲卡沿海社区的名叫简的妇女，一天早上醒来，发现她的后花园被悬崖边缘冲走了。这个故事最让我们感兴趣的是两周前她举办了一场厄尔尼诺派对。厄尔尼诺年是风暴特别强烈的一年，会产生连锁反应，引起更强的水流，理论上更有可能撕裂悬崖。然而，在厄尔尼诺聚会上，本着“理论很少转化为实践”的精神，邻居们嘲笑地穿着漂浮装置、运动救生衣、橡皮鸭和充气圈。我们想进一步探讨“它发生了，但它不会发生在我身上”、气候否认者的态度，以及社区在危机面前的重要性。

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

FREAK OUT 会带来什么样的反应！为气候危机提供什么？

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：我们观察到英国的气候变化故事与现实之间存在脱节，英国将其描述为一个令人担忧但并不紧迫的问题。我们为什么不惊慌失措？我们为什么不讨论英国需要如何适应这一挑战呢？从某种程度上来说，每一次危机都是一场讲故事的危机。我们被故事所包围，使我们看不到现实情况。气候变化是一个全球性问题，已经在当地显现出来，就像在世界其他地方一样，那些处于气候变化最前沿的人已经处于社会的边缘。我们希望让英国关于气候变化的对话变得紧迫，并倡导采取更激进的行动和及时的适应。

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. 

吓坏了！让观众知道，很快，我们都将处于与朴茨福德居民相同的境地，除非我们开始工作并要求改变，而在英国，我们确实有机会做到这一点！我们是最大的温室气体排放国之一，因此当我们在节目中谈到英国境内的社区要求赔偿时，我们希望观众能够将围绕损失和损害的对话转移到全球背景下。

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

您能告诉我们为什么英国的环境对您来说很重要吗？

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.

索菲亚：在谷歌上快速搜索一下，你就会发现英国是欧洲海岸线侵蚀最快的国家之一。对我们来说，将戏剧本地化到英国非常重要，因为讲述发生在美国的海岸侵蚀的故事感觉不像我们要讲的故事，而且与英国观众的相关性也较小。气候灾难的影响不仅仅发生在其他国家，如果观众在看完节目后能够思考它如何影响他们的邻国，那么也许会激发一些紧迫感。

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

该作品现已上演两次，一次在布里斯托尔老维克，一次在弗吉尼亚州