The last white male rhino is extinct. Forest fires, floods and landslides are commonplace all over the world. Which images, arguments and rhetoric ensure that there is so little progress in solving the climate problem?

Theater makers Anoek Nuyens and Rebekka de Wit have been following the climate debate closely for years. They attended shareholder meetings of multinationals, read speeches and interviews from Shell, plowed through agreements and policy papers from governments and systematically noted the comments of their uncles and neighbors as soon as the climate crisis was discussed during Christmas dinner. They wrote a plea for every vote in the climate debate. All these voices come together in  The Shell Case  . The reason is a real lawsuit that is now underway and has been filed by a group of NGOs against the oil giant. Stake: forcing Shell to radically change their business operations. Shell's defense? Not we, but the consumer must change. In the performance we see how cleverly everyone in the debate shifts their responsibility to another party.

In 2017, Anoek and Rebekka made their first joint production  Unless you have a better plan  about the increasing call to reform the relationship between people, animals, nature and things. Afterwards they started some pre-enactments for  The Shell Case . The final performance premiered in October 2020 and is still on tour through the Netherlands and Belgium. In 2021,  The Shell Case was  made into a film by Dana Nechustan and Norbert ter Hall.