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The origins ofDeep Historylie with Finnigans father, a climate scientist.
Crucially, this is all told within the setting of late 2019.
The vignettes are all told with she/her pronouns in front of looping museum-montage PowerPoint slides.
Its all thorough and hollow.
As fires draw closer to Canberra, the hollowness of Finnigans in-the-moment lecture becomesDeep Historys broader point.
Many pieces in that tradition press a similar kind of Wait, should I be saying this?
and Hannah GadsbysNanette(Should I really be doing comedy?
or even the musicalSix(Is a competition between ex-wives also kinda sexist anyway?).
(And, in this case, a needle drop.)
If baseline survival at all costs isnt the right metric, what is?
Deep Historyis at the Public Theater through November 10.
