Red Days
Genre: Contemporary Coming-of-Age Drama
Format: Live In-Person Performance
Keywords: climate change, mother-daughter conflict, asthma, teenage activism, high school athletes, first love, environmental justice, spoken word, coming-of-age
Cast Size: 4 actors (3 female, 1 male) with intentional doubling; expandable to 7 actors (5 female, 2 male)
Duration: Approximately 75 minutes
Time Period: A few years in the future
Cautions: Depiction of asthma attacks, some strong language
In a near-future Salt Lake City blanketed by red air days, Dianna is a star cross-country runner with fragile lungs and a fiercely driven mother who is also her coach. Her future seems mapped out—scholarships, medals, endurance—until a radio internship opens up a different possibility.
As worsening air quality collides with a new school waiver forcing student-athletes to assume responsibility for environmental risks, Dianna begins to question everything: her sport, her mother’s expectations, and the systems that have normalized the air they breathe.
Caught between ambition and awakening, loyalty and independence, Dianna must decide what kind of future—and what kind of voice—she wants to claim.
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Praise for This Play
Bublitz envisions a dystopian future right here in our own backyard, with air quality in the Salt Lake Valley so bad that everyone wears filtering masks and goggles, carries an inhaler and young athletes literally take their lives in their hands whenever they compete or train outdoors. ... Red Days is both intriguing and chilling. - Cache Valley Daily