Woke up this morning with my head still full of the set of _Toe Fai! _and Talaucaka, shows (fragments of a wider universe?) I was lucky to see at Circa last night. Grace O’Brien’s design was so startling! Simple, stark, challenging, somehow both elegant and chillingly intimidating (as it ought to have been for these climate dystopias). Everything about the night was rewarding: fine acting; the chance to hear Gagana Tokelau on the stage (my first, I’m sure); a script that is challenging and ambitious and unafraid of ideas and abstraction (rare enough here!); an unashamedly intellectual and Science Fiction approach that’s also physical, embodied, spare, felt. Emele Ugavule has made something rich and strange.