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The climate movement provides us again from the hope that the world has reached a maximum madness.
Could a new wave of urgent theater keep the key to combating climate change?
Kate Wyver on May 8, 2025 5 p.m. Aest
From a new forest giant that inspires an asthmatic teenager to a herd of animal dolls that go to the Arctic circle, the theater takes measures far and wide with energy and optimism and not with stupid stories
Climate stories are typically defined by despair. The future of which we are told is such a tragic, barren dystopia that it is difficult to look at yourself frontally. But a flood of theater makers write through love, music, puppet show and folklore in something more useful, more inspiring. “Those who benefit the most from the idea that we are doomed to fail are the oil companies and the people who have a massive pollution,” explains the playwright Flora Wilson Brown. “If we allow ourselves to believe that we cannot do anything, we won't do anything. It's still time to act.”
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These pieces try to take what often feels invisible and interpret it for an audience to see more clearly. Abroad, a rush of animals are faced with this challenge in even larger phases. In 2021, a 12-foot marionette of a 10-year-old Syrian girl named Little Amal was 8,000 km from Turkey to Great Britain to raise awareness of the urgent need for refugees. This summer the same team started a 20,000 km long trip (12,400 miles) and led the herds, a group of Lifesize animal dolls, from the Congo basin to the Arctic circle. “The people who rely on the forest now feel the climate crisis,” says David Lan, one of the core teams and former artistic director of the young Vic. “Animals are already moving from their old habitat because the earth is too hot. We wanted to dramatize this in order to express the way life is already strongly influenced by what happens to the climate.”
The project transfers people's resistance to admit that the climate emergency makes our home uninhabitable by putting it in public spaces in front of it. …
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/08/the-beautiful-future-is-coming-mess-binging-the-outside-in–herd
I don't know anything about you, but I think of a society that can afford to support a group of committed artists who go on a huge herd of dolls on a 5000 -mile trip that is probably not up to their last rice cracker.
Real crisis includes dining and people who fall dead on the streets. A fake crisis apparently require herds of dolls.
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