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Ashden Directory DVD : Six ways to look at climate change and theatre - our online film for 'Earth Matters on Stage'  
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'Earth Matters on Stage': videos, blogs, photos  
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Making music with the 'thousand mile song'  
  Improvising composer and musician David Rothenberg makes new music with beluga, killer and humpback whales more »


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Catching the spirit of Mendes and the Amazon  
  Joe Hill-Gibbins writes from Rio Branco about the start of Amazônia, a year-long celebration of Brazilian popular culture and Chico Mendes. more »


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Other lives brought home  
  Playwright Satinder Chohan journeys to the Punjab to research Zameen, her play about land and families caught in the global economies of cotton, seeds and debt. more »


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Cape Farewell's Disko Bay expedition sails to the west coast of Greenland  
  We follow Cape Farewell's 2008 expedition, the plays, poetry and science, with excerpts from the crew's blogs. more »


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Play Journal  
  Samantha Ellis keeps an exclusive diary about researching The Last Wolf in Scotland, her new play about reintroducing wolves in the Highlands. more »


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Theatres go green  
  London theatres are leading the way, reports Kellie Gutman more »


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Puppet Wranglers  
  Animals are let loose on the stage. Eleanor Margolies reports on how puppets enact our relations with animals. more »


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Begin with the small
 
  Vandana Shiva, leading opponent of GM and the patenting of seeds, talks about biological and cultural diversity. more »


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'I'm a great believer in play'
 
  The naturalist Richard Mabey talks to Eleanor Margolies about Shakespeare, David Attenborough and 'syrupy' writing. more »


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Does it work anyway?
 
  Jonathon Porritt wonders if you can hammer home the message and still hold the audience's attention. more »


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The Directory debate  
  We ask seven experts to discuss the slow start of plays about climate change. more »


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The state of things to come
 
  As theatre maverick John Fox goes from directing 500 people to working solo, he tells David Haley about his next big plan. more »


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'But are you any good?'
 
  Siân Ede of the Gulbenkian Foundation tells Wallace Heim about what fires her imagination. more »


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Tasting the unfamiliar  
  'Feast' brought together artists, food, allotments and school children for a year. Eleanor Margolies went to visit. more »


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Me and My Funder: Konflux and the SITA Trust  
  Miranda Thain of Konflux writes about turning landfill tax into a schools' tour. more »

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title:  Shorts

»   ashdenizen :: the editor's blog
 
»   Bonnie Marranca serves up 'The Theatre of Food'
 
»   The plays that come out of Slumdog's world
 
»   Voices from the deep: our complete guide to whales onstage
 
»   A story I tell (2):
storyteller Helen East picks 'The Narwhal'
 
»   Feast on Southwark Bridge celebrates food, convivality and the city
 
»   War Horse: working with animals at the National Theatre
 
»   Theatres Trust conference: our notes on building sustainable theatres
 
»   How to green your theatre
 
»   Eco Players: Mike Lawler of ecoTheater
 
»   Facts, observations and stories: Rachel Carson celebrated with a lecture and a play
 
»   Wild Bunch writers touch wilderness and the wild
 
»   A story I tell (1):
storyteller Kevin Graal picks Erysichthon and the Sacred Tree
 
»   George Monbiot finds Dr Faustus the key text
 
»   Ackroyd and Harvey turn National Theatre green
 
»   LIFT eats London
 
»   Robert Butler reviews PLATFORM's climate-change opera
 
»   Playwrights revisited (1):
If Brecht were alive, would he write about global warming?
 
»   Playwrights revisited (2):
Ibsen's wild duck is first laboratory animal (onstage)
 
»   Playwrights revisited (3):
Chekhov the proto-environmentalist
 
»   Playwrights revisited (4):
The feeling vision of Shakespeare's Lear
 
»   What I Read:
James Marriott of PLATFORM studies the 'FT'
 
»   Our digest of online articles:
John Lanchester, Bill McKibben, Robert Macfarlane and more...
 
»   New books:
Paddock director Susannah Waters writes climate-change novel
 
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