In the second installment of our series, Khristián Mendéz Aguirre gives us more ways to think about eco-theater: the tributaries that inform its current state and the many plays and playwrights who make up its “canon.”
ANTIGONE IN THE AMAZON had its U.S. premiere at NYC’s Skirball Center in September 2024. The questions Milo Rau raises with his company of actors and performers are not easy, but they are poignant.
What role does theater play in the fight to corral climate change and avert catastrophe? Not the one we think, suggests eco-dramatist and scholar, Khristián Méndez Aguirre in this essay–the first of a series on eco-dramaturgy.
Next Forever resident Kate Douglas talks to Extended Play editor Faith Zamblé about time, space, grief and how plays make space for wonder and loss.
Next Forever resident AriDy Nox weaves a methodology of Black feminism and curiosity as groundwork for their play, “Why Ya’ll Hate Earth So Bad?”
R&D group member Dan Caffrey shares the inspiration and process behind his new play THE TUSK HUNTERS.
In this article from NYC-based theater creator John J King, originally published by HowlRound, King discusses creating sustainable theater and pursuing best practices for both theater and the environment.
The climate crisis is an ever-present reality and this article from Alice Stanley Jr. is still relevant seven months after its original publication on HowlRound. After a week of news agencies covering the climate crisis from the Amazon’s waning ability to be the world’s carbon sink to the wildfires ravaging the western United States with smoke reaching New York City, this production by Capital W feels as timely as ever for theater as a whole to consider.
Extended Play’s Daniel Krane interviews Alix Lambert and Brian Young about the making of the music video for a classic Michael Friedman song and what Michael Friedman’s work means to them.
Activist/writer Andrea Ciannavei interviews Jacques Servin and Laura Nix about the Yes Men, the activist performance duo that targets power systems.
“The thing I ask the artist is: What’s urgent to you? And then also: What can you do with groups that you might not be able to do by yourself? There is a politic there. Some people address it head on in a very overt way, and others are more nuanced.”
In May of 2015, Jennie Hahn of Maine’s Open Waters performance collaborative launched a multi-year investigation into the Penobscot River. She invited writer Cory Tamler to help launch the project, which will inform a performance event in 2017.
“I grew up in New York, I love gray. But then I moved to California and fell in love with blue.”
Steve Cosson and Cynthia Hopkins discuss their different theatrical journeys through the Arctic to address the global climate change crisis.
Environmental literary critic Anthony Lioi unpacks the work of environmentalist media and artists who grapple with global climate change.
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