The Year We Disappeared

The critically acclaimed The Year We Disappeared returns for a limited engagement with a darkly comic look at one of the defining anxieties of the present: the climate crisis. Framed through the world of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the production intertwines stories of queer identity, bullying, shame, personal transformation, and even a journey back to the first Congressional Climate Hearings of 1988.

Written and directed by Anthony Meindl, the piece mixes existential questions with humor, asking whether people given another chance would actually choose to heal themselves and create something better. Its combination of climate concerns, queer storytelling, fantasy, and theatrical imagination gives the production a distinctive blend of social commentary and deeply personal reflection.