BATS The­atre’s new play Heat starts this Fri­day, and has been sell­ing itself on an unusu­al point: “eco-the­atre”. The show’s lights and sound will be com­plete­ly off-grid, and the prepa­ra­tions for the sus­tain­able ener­gy sources were vis­i­ble over the week­end.

Heat warming up

Such a ploy could come across as gim­micky, but it’s designed to mim­ic the con­straints of its set­ting, an Antarc­tic sur­vival cap­sule. And with tal­ent such as play­wright Lyn­da Chan­wai-Ear­le and com­pos­er Gareth Farr involved, it’s bound to have a lot of appeal, and one of the actors even has the appro­pri­ate name Bri­an Hot­ter.