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Alison Carey and Amrita Ramanan on Theater and Climate Change
Theater has long been at the forefront of conversations about human injustice. But we might not think of the stage as a space to consider questions of environmental justice as well. Two leaders at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), one of the nation’s largest and oldest repertory theater companies, are trying to change this. Alison Carey, a playwright, environmental activist, and cofounder of the community-based Cornerstone Theater Company, directs OSF’s American Revolutions project to commission new plays about moments of change in US history, including Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer winner Sweat (2015), about the decline of industrial America, and Robert Schenkkan’s Tony winner All the Way (2012), about LBJ’s presidency. Amrita Ramanan is the Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy at OSF; she has also worked as a producer and dramaturg for the justice-focused Double Edge Theatre in Massachusetts, created a program to engage audiences and artists in dialogue at DC’s Arena Stage, and conducted research with the India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore.
Together, Carey and Ramanan have begun an initiative to use the tools of dramaturgy—putting plays in context, facilitating conversations between artis
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In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Genevieve Guenther, a Renaissance scholar and literary critic at The New School who turned to climate activism after having a child and becoming increasingly alarmed about the world she might leave to her son after she died. They discuss the forces that shape our climate discourse and how to communicate effectively about the climate crisis. Time stamps and the full transcript are below. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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[00:00:14] Introduction
[00:01:26] Dr. Guenther’s Humanities Skillset
[00:07:59] Underlying Societal Beliefs About Nature and Progress
[00:12:29] Media Coverage of Climate
[00:16:45] Principles of Climate Communication
[00:20:36] Tone & Style of Communication
[00:27:02] Encouraging Sustainable Effort
We're back again on with our interview series and this is one we've been looking forward to for many months, because it is with a person who brings a very different take to the subjects we've been talking about for some years now on our interview series.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther is a Renaissance scholar and literary critic who turned
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