Shaping New Climate Narratives: Why a Journalist/Historian Turned to Theatre for Climate Stories
Earlier this year, taking a front row seat at a church in Gary, Indiana, I watched as a young rapper,
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Changing the Climate Narrative Fifty Plays at a Time
“I suspect future generations will look back and judge us not so much by what we said and did about
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The Loneliest Species
“The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and vegetable.
From Heaviness to Hope
With the US midterm election still a week away, wariness and cautious optimism hung in the air at our second
Art on a Damaged Planet: The Theatre in the Age of Climate Change Convening
From 8 to 10 June 2018, HowlRound, in partnership with Chantal Bilodeau (The Arctic Cycle), Elizabeth Doud (Climakaze Miami/Fundarte), and Roberta
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Warming Up to the Arctic Through Theatre
As a university student in the early 1990’s, my partner, the writer, Glen Retief, took part in the anti-apartheid struggle
Confronting Climate Injustice Through Theatre
We need more bridges. The boundaries made by water and oppression are formidable, but art helps us across. Take, for
Exorcizing Harveys: Writing for Women of the Arctic
Harveys suck, let’s start with that. They utterly and despicably suck. Harveys, as we brutally found out last summer, are
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Storytelling Strategies in Eco-Theatre
How do you write a play about climate change? Ocean acidification? The Anthropocene mass extinction? As a playwright working with
On Mortality
The Persistent Acts series returns, with the mother of all existential questions. “How do we live knowing we’re going to