By Situation Theatre 8/2/2020

A Melbourne parent trying valiantly to be both honest and reassuring about the climate crisis to his 4-year-old daughter is still tinkering with his approach after his optimistic message about Adam Bandt and Bernie Sanders failed to soften the blow of defining omnicide.

A stay at home Dad and woke capital city greenie not practically equipped for a Mad Max style future is rethinking his approach to bedtime stories after giving his daughter a week of insomnia.

Last Sunday night at 8pm, following a series of questions about climate change from his curious daughter Eleanor, Dave Shellstrop made the bold move to ditch The Very Hungry Caterpillar in favour of a freestyle story he titled The Ballad of Bernie and Bandt.

While he started strong with some good gear about two kind heroes leading millions of people in a fight against the wicked coal barons, by the time he was giving a technical definition of omnicide as “the obliteration of all humans and all living species”, he knew he was in all sorts of trouble.

Dave will be reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar for the foreseeable future.

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