The Beautiful Future Is Coming - by Flora Wilson Brown (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

1854. New York. Eunice sits in what will become Central Park and wonders if something is going horribly wrong.

2027. London. Clare falls in love as the streets begin to flood.

2100. Svalbard. Ana hears a baby crying in the seed vault.

The world is ending, sure. But what happens in between?

Flora Wilson Brown's The Beautiful Future is Coming is a fresh, fast-paced, and funny play covering 250 years of climate crisis--a powerful story about holding onto hope and humanity against all odds.

Review Quotes

A fresh and often very funny look at the impacts of climate change.
--Reviews Hub

At once expansive and intimate...knowing and naturalistic...delicately balances hope and despair.
--Broadway World

About the Author

Flora Wilson Brown is a writer and dramaturg based in London. She is the co-founder, alongside Harry Tennison, of new writing theatre company DONOTALIGHT. Her plays include: The Beautiful Future is Coming (Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 2024 and 2025); I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse, London, 2022); and Viking (Edinburgh Fringe, 2019). As a dramaturg, she has worked on projects at the Edinburgh Fringe, the RSC, and the Orange Tree Theatre.