• tiger python
• climate crisis
• adaptation of a novel
• rust stains
• fall from grace

What if the end is closer than we want to realise? And yet nobody notices?

Cat and Todd lead a comfortable life, they own a great beach house in Florida, and as a salesman for a large rum company, Todd gets around well. He earns his money with parties where a lot of alcohol is drunk for advertising purposes, enough money to allow Cat a carefree life as a less successful influencer. If only it weren't for the rising sea levels and the increasingly frequent storm surges, which cause the Tesla to develop ugly rust spots on the driveway. Cat is regularly reminded that things can't go on like this by her brother Cooper, who, as an entomologist in California, is noticeably running out of things to research. In the end, two tiger pythons in Cat's beach house also play their part in the looming catastrophe, and the inevitable apocalypse is no longer irrevocable.

T.C. Boyle tells of the division of a society between naïve ‘carry on’ and apocalyptic shock paralysis, based on a family divided by a rift on the East and West coasts of America. Alexander Eisenach transfers the novel to the stage - most definitely without live snakes.