Climate Storytelling for the Theatre: A Workshop for Playwrights
Tuesday 5 May
1pm – 4pm
NET’s new office: 46 Oxford Drive Magdalen Street London SE1 2FB (Find us here)
Curious about telling stories about climate justice and nature on stage?
Join our workshop for global majority writers and their allies to explore climate and climate justice dramaturgy for the stage.
In the lead up to the Climate Playwriting Prize, Shakespeare’s Globe, Climate Spring and Fern Culture are hosting a series of workshops with each of their Associate Partners. These sessions are an opportunity to think creatively and critically about how theatre can respond to the defining challenge of our time. Together we’ll explore how climate stories can become compelling drama: from finding the human stakes inside global issues to building characters, conflict, and theatrical worlds.
As an Associate Partner on the Climate Playwriting Prize, New Earth Theatre is hosting this workshop which will focus on Climate Justice and how to tell climate stories that are meaningful to diverse audiences who may feel the effects of the climate crisis differently than the majority.
Led by playwright Nina Segal in conversation with our Artistic Director Ailin Conant, the workshop will look at how climate stories can become compelling drama: from finding the human stakes inside global issues to building characters, conflict, and theatrical worlds. It will include practical exploration of how to write a climate play through the lens of Climate Justice, with a wider discussion about the kinds of climate stories we need now. Whether you’re already developing an idea or just beginning to think about writing about the climate, these workshops are a space to test ideas, ask questions, and connect with other writers engaging with the climate crisis.
The workshop is open to anyone who is interested in exploring how to bring stories of Climate Justice to the stage, regardless of cultural background. We particularly encourage BESEA playwrights and those of the Global Majority to apply. It is intended for those interested in finding out more about, and potentially submitting a play for, the Climate Playwriting Prize. It is expected that those who attend to be eligible to apply for the prize (prize criteria are here). This means you will have had some previous professional experience of script writing, such as participating in a talent development scheme, staging an R&D sharing or having a script commissioned. SIGN UP HERE
No prior knowledge of climate science is required - just curiosity, imagination, and a desire to tell powerful stories.
If you’re interested in learning more about the workshops offered by the other partners, please visit here.