How Object Puppetry Confronts Climate Change
I want to tell you a story about a Styrofoam cup, and how, in giving voice to this one cup,
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Apollo Meets the Climate Youth Movement on Indigenous Ground
“Looking back at my home from space, I heard voices: the soft whisper of stories and songs from across time
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Holding This Climate in My Body
Five months ago, I was up high in the mountains of Banff for a weekend, along with thirty theatre colleagues,
The Factory of the Future: A Collaborative Project for Imagining Otherwise
“Those who tell the stories rule the world.” With that claim, George Monbiot opens his book Out of the Wreckage, a
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Adapting to a New Normal in Jeune Terre
In bed at night, my partner scrolls through Instagram and sends me memes and headlines, even though I’m lying right
On Late Style Ecotheatre
“There’s a wilding inside that connects with a wilding up there,” Uncle, the elderly environmentalist, says in my 2014 play
Towards a Sustainable Aesthetic Theory: Climate and Rasa
If theatre is going to fundamentally change the way we think about climate change – and the way we relate to our planet and other species on it – we must change the way we make theatre so that it embodies new ways of sustainable thinking. Aesthetic theories reflect and shape ways of thinking, being, and interacting. Aesthetic theories are not, then, politically neutral; they require particular dramaturgical structures that are in turn political. In order to make theatre that embodies a politics of sustainability, I suggest we replace the aesthetic theory of catharsis – and all it implies and entails – with the Sanskrit aesthetic theory of rasa. The term “rasa” has been variously translated as juice, flavor, taste, extract, and essence. According to The Nātyashāstra (The Science of Drama), the Sanskrit aesthetic treatise attributed to Bharata, rasa is the “aesthetic flavor or sentiment” savored in and through performance. It’s the mixing of different emotions and feelings that arise from different
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Refuge in a Climate Context
Since 2000, the UN has observed World Refugee Day on June 20 to raise awareness of the situation of refugees
Environmentalism Behind the Scenes on Broadway and Beyond
Sustainability and Broadway are two words that, on the surface, might not go together. Sustainability is a complex concept that
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Climate Change Theatre is LIT: A Study on the Performing Arts and Climate Change Engagement
Like many of us, I’ve spent a lot of time feeling disturbed, depressed, and defeated as the climate crisis grows.