«Theatres and creatives across the country are urging the arts sector to “do its part” and “tell the truth” about the impending ecological crisis through participation in a nationwide artistic project.
Shakespeare’s Globe, National Theatre Wales, award-winning poet
Kate Tempest and playwright Simon Stephens are among those calling on the
public to pen “letters to the Earth” – dramatic or personal responses to the
climate emergency facing the world.
These would then be performed to audiences at arts venues in a
“day of action” on Friday 12 April, followed by an open conversation to bring
people together in the face of the crisis.
BAFTA-winner Michaela Coel and the Royal Court Theatre have also
given their backing to the initiative, which is encouraging all arts venues and
community spaces to participate.
The project follows dire warnings from the International Panel
on Climate Change, which believes there are only 12 years left to change how we
live to “avert disaster”.
“As Sophocles and Shakespeare and Moliere and Ibsen and Brecht
wrote plays as interventions into the major political crises of their worlds
and of their time, so we now need our writers to record and reflect this
probably biggest ever global challenge,” commented David Lan, former Artistic
Director of the Young Vic.
He adds that creatives need to “help us understand what to do”
and how to prevent climate disruption from “destroying so much that the west,
the east, the north, the south have struggled to create over millennia”.
“The time has always been now.” (...)». Continue a ler.
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