Description
This book is a guide to one hundred plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate crisis
100 Plays to Save the World is a book to provoke as well as inspire--to start conversations, inform debate, challenge our thinking, and be a launchpad for future productions. Above all, it is a call to arms--to step up, think big, and unleash theatre's power to imagine a better future into being.
Each play is explored with an essay illuminating key themes in climate issues: Resources, Energy, Migration, Responsibility, Fightback, and Hope.
100 Plays to Save the World is an empowering resource for theatre directors, producers, teachers, youth leaders, and writers looking for plays that speak to our present moment.
Author: Elizabeth Freestone, Jeanie O'Hare
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781636701448
ISBN10: 1636701442
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater | History & Criticism
- Drama | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Science | Global Warming & Climate Change
About the Author
Elizabeth Freestone is a theatre director, creative consultant and environmentalist. She has directed plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Royal Exchange, the Citizens Theatre Glasgow, the Young Vic and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, amongst others. She is a former Artistic Director of Pentabus, a new work touring company. She offers strategic advice and creative and environmental consultancy in both a paid and volunteer capacity for various organizations, as well as teaching and mentoring young artists. She has a Masters degree in Environmental Humanities from Bath Spa University.
Jeanie O'Hare is a short-story writer, playwright and project consultant for theatre and film. She originally trained as a sculptor. She has worked for the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Druid Theatre, and was Chair of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama. Most recently she was the Director of New Work Development at the Public Theater in New York. Her focus is on scouting, developing and producing new writers who tell original and important stories.