Hurricane Mona Published with Playwrights Canada Press

Now available to pre-order. Official release date April 21, 2026.

Awards

• Winner, Sydney J. Risk Foundation Award 2024

• Winner, David King Prize 2023

A relentless eco-activist creates family chaos amidst a climate disaster.

Description

It’s not easy being green, especially for Mona, a diehard environmental activist sentenced to a year of house arrest for her topless vandalism at the Global Climate March. Exiled from her commune co-op, Mona is forced to serve her sentence back home with her well-meaning parents and annoyed younger sibling who just want to enjoy their coffee pods and Amazon packages in peace. But when Mona’s tyrannical green crusade engulfs the entire household, her family spirals into a hilarious and chaotic maelstrom of hypocrisy, guilt, and generational finger-pointing, ultimately asking themselves what’s more unbearable: an ecological collapse or each other?

Hurricane Mona is an outrageous and arresting comedy about the collisions of Boomer complacency, Millennial disillusionment, and Gen Z apathy in the face of climate catastrophe. Complete with a giant talking frog, a psychedelic mushroom trip, and some hairy activism, Pippa Mackie’s riotous rallying cry delivers big laughs and even bigger questions about the mess we’re leaving behind and who’s left to clean it up.

Reviews

“Pippa Mackie has balanced a deeply personal and contemporary story with a dash of political commentary and absurd comedy . . . Eco-anxiety, a sense of doom and utter outrage at the lack of systemic redress towards climate justice are tackled with dark humor and magical realism.”

- Annapoorna Shruthi, The Vancouver Arts Review

“A comedy about the climate crisis? You’ve got to be kidding. But playwright Pippa Mackie isn’t kidding and yet Hurricane Mona is very funny.”

- Jo Ledingham