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title:  Main Features


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New metaphors for sustainability: metaphors for the continuation of life  
  Here are all the metaphors for sustainability suggested to us. more »


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Film launches Ashden Directory & Ashdenizen project to find metaphors for sustainability  
  What are the new metaphors for sustainability? We start our project with a film of four. more »


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First climate change play started with James Lovelock  
  'The Contingency Plan' playwright Steve Waters talks to Robert Butler. more »


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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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Ashden Directory (London) talks with 'Earth Matters on Stage' (Oregon)  
  We've transcribed the video discussion between our panel in London and the 'Earth Matters on Stage' conference in Oregon. more »


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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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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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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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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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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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The Directory debate  
  In 2005, we asked 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 »

view archived features and interviews >>

title:  Shorts

»   Flowers on stage: from poppies to kudzu
 
»   Feast on the Bridge celebrates food and fun: artist and curator Clare Patey shows us some snapshots
 
»   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'
 
»   War Horse: working with animals
 
»   How to green your theatre
 
»   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
 
»   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'
 
»   Shorts Archive
PLATFORM's climate change opera
Ackroyd & Harvey turn NT green
Rachel Carson celebrated
LIFT Eats London
Eco-players: Mike Lawler
 
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