In The Unplugging, two women seek shelter in a freezing, desolate landscape of post-apocalyptic Canada. To their surprise, they begin to thrive, reviving skills taught to them by their elders. We want to know: what skill would you take with you to a post-apocalyptic world in order to survive and why?
Post your answers in the comments below. We’ll draw two winners (each recieves 2 tickets to The Unplugging) on Monday, October 29 at 9:00 am. One winner will be selected randomly, and one winner based on the most original answer. Get creative!
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Photographic memory, to reprint every book and teach every lost skill or knowledge of our past to help us rebuild our future.
Dowsing (finding water with a stick)
My ability to stay clam. Nothing gets done effectively in pandemonium.
I would take the skill of raw cooking! I doubt there would be electricity in a post-apoloyctic world!
I think the ability to shoot a gun and hunt for your food would be a skill that one would find useful in a a post-apocalyptic world.
The basic skill necessary is to know how to start a fire to keep one warm and help to prepare food.
My fire starting skills to keep warm, ward off predators, and to cook them.
Taking skill from the past may not be the answer. Learning a new skill such as allowing our conscious minds to unfold the future of our dreams would be the skill I would like to have.
My non-existent fishing and hunting skills so I can feed and protect myself from the radioactive zombies.
I would use my cooking skills and knowledge of food sourses and peperation of what was available and make it tasty!!!!!!
Making fire. Not very original but likely very useful!
Hunting. To live you need to eat:-)
I would bring my skills of gardening.
I would take bottles of whiskey – because I am Irish and my ancestors survived the potatoe famine and I’m sure it was because of the whiskey.
GROUP/SOCIAL INFLUENCE SKILL: In addition to fullfilling your emotional needs and basic human contact/interaction/relation needs; Regardless of what other skills or resources you have you will need to be able to get other people to share, give you and/or help you (as leaders, followers or collaborators) to acquire all of the basic things/resources – ie. food, water, shelter, supplies, safety, etc. (that likely will be in limited supply) that you will need to survive.
Also, this skill will ensure that others view your survival as an asset and/or necessity to their own survival.
First aid is a must and hunting skills
I have the skill of working with wood using hand tools make a dwelling, tools appliances cutlery furniture and then trade for things with others, looking to see the play.
Hunting…although if I can’t take my gun with me I guess the skill to make a bow and arrows would be good too. Serves several functions: sustenance, and defence.
If it weren’t hunting it’d be farming, but that’s less relevant in a frozen wasteland, I think.
Fire making skill- because if food is found, it’ll need to be cooked. Heat also will help for warmth and boiling water. You can go days without food but if you have clean water , you have higher chance of survival. Without warmth, one can also die of hypothermia before they even starve to death.
knitting and raising sheeps, that will give us food nd clothing, anything that has to do with farming and gardening will be a good skill
I know you will get a thousand emails stating STRENGTH, ABILITY TO GROW FOOD, HUNTING SKILLS, HOW TO BUILD A SHELTER and so on and so on. My perfect skill is CHARISMA(in a sly way) to charm and flatter any other survivors so I can get food, shelter and other necessary items from them. Charming and flattering skills are more useful than muscles or a gun and after some (phony, insincere) compliments to some ugly, stinky male survivor, soon I will be sharing his food and shelter! WORKS EVERY TIME!
being able to use a gun and hunt for your own food would be a valuable skill to have…
Many skills would help me to survive: optimism, faith, adaptability, creativity, ingenuity but the best survival skill I have is the one that would make both me and my fellow survivors actually ENJOY survival, and that is my sense of humor!
fun size Laurie B
Turning water into wine; it has been theorized that humans can survive much longer on wine than they can on mere water…
A lighter (or matches) of course! No matter what you always need fire!
Flying, of course
The skill I would take with me to a post-apocalyptic world in order to survive would be a SENSE OF HUMOUR, because humour is essential to getting us through the tough spots in life!!!
The skills I would take with me would be how to purify water, how to start and keep a fire going without matches, build a lean to or build a shelter out of a rock over hang. Make sure you take care in EVERYTHING you do, a small mistake can snowball into a huge mistake. Adapt…look at everything you have with you in a different way so you can use those items in many different ways to survive. Hygiene is an important factor to survival. Make sure you get rid of plaque build up to avoid infections or abscesses by at least wiping your teeth once or twice daily. To help people cope better in a survival situation focusing on manageable tasks lessens. the stress level. Above all your attitude to survive will make you survive anything.
Leadership. As much as I wouldn’t like to admit it, if we were in a post apocalyptic world, we would have to be able to take control of our situation. We need to be able to analyze what is going on and how we are going to survive. The utilization of those leadership skills that everyone knows needs to happen. It’s the only way we’d survive.
The skill that I would take with me to a post-apocalyptic world in order to survive would be my design ability. With design what results is the ability to to come up with many unique ideas which has helped me be resourceful in many ways: from problem-solving to repurposing and upcycling which would all be useful in survival.
Looking forward to the opportunity to see the play “The Unplugging”!
Ability (with the necessary high tolerance for gag reflex) to eat almost anything, because you don’t know what is available in a post-apocalyptic world.
Season Ticket Holders for several years – on long service leave last year. A sample of plays may be the impetus for returning!
Would love to win. Thank you.
I love the arts club
Sense of direction & fitness – may have to travel far for safety/food/assistance
I would take my husband to keep my heart warm, my dog to remind me to live in the moment and be fearless, and a journal and pen to catalogue my experience. Also necessary would be lots of canned food and vitamins and water purifying tablets to keep my body strong….:)
I would take the skills of making a fire with me.
Collaboration – the ability to utilize everyone’s skills to benefit all
I would sharpen my flirting skills. Lord knows I couldn’t survive without electricity. I don’t even know how to ride a bike, swim or run for more than 20 seconds…so starting a fire is completely out of the question. If someone gave me dry sticks, flint, and firewood, I’d probably just eat them, because I’d just hurt myself trying to start a fire. So the reason I would sharpen my flirting skills would be to lure one of the last poor shmucks out there to take care of me.
I can run, and cycle, being fit I can cover vast distances.
Why, the ability to create fire, of course. I hear it’s gonna be pretty darned cold in the post-apocalyptic world!
Pick me, pick me. Your next winner!!! Show me the money! My ability to grow vege. , fruit, etc. so I don’t starve. It would be a dream come true and means a lot more to me than anyone else to win the prize. Starving artist here desperately needs to see this play to feel inspired and alive again. A life changing experience. Top of my bucket list.
I would take along the survivalist skill of foraging. Knowing what is edible among the plant life. Im afraid if I had to kill something I might not survive!
I would say regenerating the ability to communicate with plants and rest of the natural and spirit worlds (and to know there are so many other people out there trying to do the same thing) kukwstum’c
I would take the knowledge of how to build a shelter! How to gather branches or pieces of materials to build a place for shelter and safety. Also how to keep warm with finding materials!
I think the skill of fishing and building a variety of ingenious fish traps would be a must.
The ability to procreate, to ensure the human race continues…
One would require something more important than a skill – a very positive attitude! Because in every adversity the “I can get through this” mentality will ensure the survival of even the most feeble soul.
The skill of hibernation – Wake me up when everything’s up and running again!
What skill? My Resourcefulness.
Survival in any environment relies to a great degree on maintaining a positive attitude and a spirit of determination through adversity.
I think that learning to forage would be very useful… especially in BC, where wild food abounds and is just waiting for you to pick & eat it! Knowing the difference between delicious morel mushrooms and deadly poisonous ones would be an asset for sure!
My husband always knows where North is. I can always find the nearest shopping centre. Between us, we can stay alive by looting for some years (I would, however, leave my billing information, in case civilization starts up again.)
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Wicked Bow and Arrow Skills. You never know what might be out there. Zombies, Aliens, are we under attack? I’m not risking it. Great for hunting too. I got this. =)