Jenny Feather and the Powers That Be is a play about the future of one woman against the backdrop of a world falling apart. As the climate breakdown ramps up, the chaos in the world causes chaos on a much more personal scale for Jenny. All the while she is stalked by a shadowy figure with seemingly boundless control over her life. Jenny Feather and the Powers That Be is a play that looks into the deep abyss of the twenty-first century to see what hope, if any, can be found there.

Saul Kenrick was born in Edinburgh and is currently studying script-writing in Norwich. He has been involved in XR in both Scotland and England and is awaiting trial for protesting in London. Jenny Feather and the Powers That Be is his first play at the Edinburgh festival.

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This event is part of Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) Summerhall Residency, 25th July - 25th August 2019. A month of visual art, installation, film, theatre, spoken word, poetry, live art, performance, workshops, talks and more - all engaging with XR’s core three demands and questioning how we respond to the global climate and ecological emergency.

XR’s demands are as follows: that the government tells the truth on the climate and ecological emergency, that the government acts now to reduce biodiversity loss and commits to net zero carbon emissions by 2025, and that the government creates a Citizens Assembly to oversee the changes.