Climate Justice: Acting with Urgency

Climate Justice: Acting with Urgency 

How can theatre deal with the existential threat of the climate emergency?

A discussion led by Poppy Burton-Morgan and Will Reynolds, Artistic Directors of Metta Theatre.

“I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.” Greta Thunberg, Jan 2019.

Theatres around the country were finally starting to wake up and engage with the climate crisis – taking action to reduce their carbon emissions and making work engaging with the crisis and issues of climate justice. But were we just rearranging the deckchairs while the Titanic steamed towards the ice berg?

And now Coronavirus has shown us painfully clearly what a crisis really smells & feels like: so how can we be radical and act on Climate with the urgency we need? What will our sector and our work look and feel like when we break away from Business As Usual? How will make sure our recovery from this terrible pandemic is based on sustainability, not getting back to where we were before as quickly as possible?

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RTYDS is currently curating the Young Vic Directors Programme. You don’t need to be a member of the Genesis Network to take part in this session, but you do need to be a professional director, designer or producer and not in full time education.

The Genesis Network is funded by the Genesis Foundation.