Books
All Good Things Must Begin: Short Plays Imagining the Future
The climate crisis demands an imaginative leap: We will create a just and regenerative world only if we dare to conjure it and use our vision to guide us through the difficulties. All Good Things Must Begin features fifty playwrights from around the world, commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2023, who take up this existential challenge. They share their vision of what the future may hold with humor, poetry, playfulness, hope, courage, but also sometimes grief and pain.
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The Future Is Not Fixed:
Short Plays Envisioning a Global Green New Deal
What if the concept of a Green New Deal could become reality? The Future Is Not Fixed presents a dazzling variety of answers to this questions in the form of fifty plays commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2021. The pieces feature a wide range of styles and perspectives, from realist dramas to experimental works, encompassing the dangers that we face as well as ecstatic possibilities for a renewed social contract.
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Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis
Lighting the Way includes 49 inspiring plays by writers from around the world commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2019. Responding to a prompt asking them to “give center stage to the unsung climate warriors and climate heroes who are lighting the way toward a just and sustainable future,” the writers offer a diversity of perspectives and artistic approaches to telling the stories of those who are making a positive impact.
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Where Is The Hope? An Anthology of Short Climate Change Plays
Where is the Hope? is a collection of 50 short plays by writers from all over the world, commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2017. A creative response to the question “How can we inspire people and turn the challenges of climate change into opportunities?” the plays offer a diversity of perspectives and artistic approaches in telling stories that may point to a just and sustainable future.