With Hurricanes Ravaging the American South, David Finnigan’s ‘Deep History’ Puts the Climate Crisis in Perspective
Finnigan, armed with a laptop computer and abetted by Hayley Egan’s video design, takes us on a journey that stretches back 75,000 years in a production that resembles a TED talk as much as a play.

The sky was clear and the air crisp and fresh as I headed to the Public Theater this week to catch a preview of “Deep History,” a one-man show tracing a particularly disastrous bushfire season in Australia. Down the coast, though, Hurricane Milton was barreling toward communities still struggling to recover from his predecessor, Helene.
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