Show exploring threat of nuclear weapons coming to Poole

A show exploring the threat of nuclear weapons is coming to Poole.

Talking About the Fire, created by award-winning Chris Thorpe and Claire O’Reilly, delves into the dangers of nuclear weapons and a new treaty aiming to end them.

The show, which is developed with Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin, will end its UK tour at Lighthouse, Poole, on Thursday, May 22.

Mr Thorpe said: “Talking About the Fire explores a very important but strangely absent conversation that we need to have about nuclear weapons as one of the most urgent and underexplored ongoing threats to global society.”

The one-person show aims to engage the audience in conversation about nuclear threats and how to tackle them.

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Nuclear threat takes centre stage in Poole with thought-provoking theatre (Image: Lighthouse Poole) It is inspired by A Family Business, a theatre show based on several years of research with arms-control advisors, UN diplomats and activists developing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

The shows highlight the TPNW’s attempt to change power dynamics in diplomacy by giving decision-making power to NGOs and countries often ignored in international policy-making.

Mr Thorpe said: “The show is guided by and relies on the expertise that the audience brings to that room and so must be a different show every time it is performed.”