Carla and Lewis

Abstract

This chapter includes the full text of the play Carla and Lewis, by Shonni Enelow. Two punk butterflies named Carla and Lewis land in the East Village apartment of curator Elsa Turner, who has conceived an interactive art installation that will speak to the human face of climate change. What she doesn’t realize is that the mud of Bangladesh, which she imagines to be so far away, is in fact soaking her apartment walls and creating its own acrimonious ecosystem right under her nose. Carla and Lewis, who don’t play by the rules of humanness, eventually force her to see the mud for what it is, transforming her world, and the theatre, with their audacious, disobedient, co-evolutionary mutations.Keywordsart installationBangladeshclimate changepunk butterfliesrefugee