Join us as The Theatre School at DePaul presents a staged reading of The Trials, a gripping and provocative play by award-winning playwright Dawn King, directed by Patrice Egleston. Set in a near-future world ravaged by climate catastrophe, The Trials imagines a courtroom where the next generation holds today’s adults accountable for their role in environmental destruction. Did they recycle? Fly too often? Eat meat? In this high-stakes reckoning, the jurors — teenagers who have inherited a world in crisis — decide the fate of those who lived in excess. Timely, urgent, and unflinching, The Trials forces us to ask: what do we owe the future?