dailynorthwestern.com: To Communication senior Isadora Porte, theater can be more than just a performance — it can be a call to action, too.
Porte and other Northwestern students will get together Sunday to present Climate Change Theatre Action at NU, one of more than 200 theatrical performances in a biennial global series aiming to provoke dialogue and action toward climate change.
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As I have said time and time again, climate change is a very real issue and it should be addressed via theater. I am so happy that Northwestern University is supporting students in spreading this message. I hope to see a similar movement at Carnegie Mellon Drama. Playground offers up a fantastic opportunity for students to convey messages like these. I know the last playground a group performed a piece on the increasingly drastic natural disasters we are experiencing. I hope this year someone touches on the dead zones in the ocean, or the waste caused by the agricultural industry, or the automotive industry, or the electrical industry, or the effects of capitalism and lobbying on legislation protecting the environment, or the current corrupt state of the EPA. Unfortunately I will be in Navigator Training the entirety of playground.
This is a wonderful idea that I think should be put on at colleges and universities across the country. I think the author of this article made a good point, that helping to lessen the impact of climate change does not mean you need to do something small—you just need to do something. Issues like this are sometimes difficult to understand if you don’t research it extensively. There is so much that goes into climate change and so many causes that it’s hard to understand all of them. The shows that are available for student organizations to perform look like they each tackle an individual issue in depth, such as “Single Use” focusing on what I assume is plastic and Styrofoam coffee or drink cups. I think doing a series of these shows at Carnegie Mellon would be received really well and would garner a lot of support. Using theater as a way to reach the minds of the public could seriously impact climate change initiatives.
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