In a program note, Watkin explains that he wrote the play to address the question: “Why do we wreck the places we love?” He explicitly means California, and implicitly Planet Earth. In an attempt to answer this question, he packs his play with numerous ways we are all complicit.  To give one example: During the date with the tech wonderkid, he tells her he’s “part of a startup that’s building six hundred ‘smart homes’ nearby, and I say she responds, “what about the water crisis, where will they get their water,” and he says, “I dunno someone’ll figure it out”

Weather Girl is a wonderful roller coaster experience taking us from the familiar to the totally unhinged.  It is both a tour de force for an actress but a brilliant allegory about the environment and a warning to those who think global warming is nothing but a hoax.  Stacey, played by Julia McDermott, is truly a piece of kindling in this play.  I wish I could convey the kind of dynamo she is on stage.  With only a “green screen” behind her and an assortment of microphones in the four corners of the stage she takes us on to the stage of a television newsroom and the great responsibility the media SHOULD but likely will never play.  

See this play if you are able – special effects hold nothing to the fine acting done by this actress!  This is much more than a play is a top-notch experience.