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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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Catching the spirit of Mendes and the Amazon  
  Joe Hill-Gibbins writes from Rio Branco in the first of our stories on Amazônia!, a year-long celebration of Brazilian popular culture and Chico Mendes 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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Why birds sing
 
  Jazz composer David Rothenberg hears music in the natural world and jams with a White Crested Laughing Thrush. 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

»   Editor's blog :: 4 July
 
»   Theatres Trust conference: our notes on building sustainable theatres
 
»   How to green your theatre
 
»   Facts, observations and stories: Rachel Carson celebrated with a lecture and a play
 
»   War Horse: working with animals at the National Theatre
 
»   Wild Bunch writers touch wilderness and the wild
 
»   A story I tell:
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
 
»   Cape Farewell returns to the Arctic
 
»   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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