Climate Justice: The Crisis On Stage
How do we engage with the climate and ecological emergency in our work?
4th June 2020
3 - 5pm
A discussion led by Poppy Burton-Morgan and Will Reynolds, Artistic Directors of Metta Theatre and joined by Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey.
Theatre productions engaging with the climate crisis in their writing or design have been relatively few and far between, and that is only changing slowly - what has made it so hard to meaningfully put the climate and ecological catastrophe on stage? And how can we shake things up to make sure that this existential threat to all of humanity is getting the cultural attention we need it to?
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Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey, and the Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. He was a member of the Sustainable Development Commission, and the author of Prosperity Without Growth - one of the bibles of the current environmental movement. He's also an award-winning award-winning playwright, with numerous radio-play credits for the BBC, like The Cry of the Bittern, which won a Public Awareness of Science (PAWS) Drama Award.