What's Happening
Updates and Soliloquies from Montana
As Covid-19 measures continue to limit the availability of theatre spaces across the globe, many theatre companies have found new ways to reach their audiences online.
Rebuilding the Global Home: Cymbeline and Multilateralism
As COVID-19 has spread around the world, it’s been sad to see agencies such as the World Health Organization attacked for alleged shortcomings while it struggles to encourage coordinated action against this unprecedented crisis.
COVID-19, the Anthropocene, Cymbeline
The new coronavirus is a frighteningly accelerated version of the incremental disruptions of climate change. Both are Anthropocene crises because they confound or collapse connections between local and global environments normally believed to be safely distanced and manageable. Here I'll explore how a COVID-19 context affects the roles of Jupiter and Giacomo, and alters the emotional – and potentially transformative -- impacts of the play’s tragicomedy.
Finding the Pink Flower in the Scorched Landscape: A Discussion with Our Collaborators
Cymbeline in the Anthropocene group discussion of the play's ecology on Day 2 of the Santa Barbara meeting, January 25, 2020.
Greening the Theater: Taking Ecocriticism from Page to Stage
In the past three decades ecology has lit a greening fire across disciplines, from environmental history to environmental management, from ecofeminism to green economics. Greening artistic values have spawned land-art, site-specific dance, nature writing, and music with whales.