We wanted to contribute to this major American event on ecology and theatre, and we were there online and live, from London.

Our online DVD for 'Earth Matters on Stage' is here.
Blogs from Oregon are here.

The Ashden Directory wanted to participate in this important event. We also wanted to make it possible for people in Britain to contribute their views on ecological theatre and performance. But without incurring the air travel to the west coast of America.

Mojisola Adebayo in Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey

So, we hosted a satellite panel discussion session between London and Eugene on 29 May (6pm in London, 9am in Oregon) titled: 'What Can Be Asked? What Can Be Shown? British Theatre in the Time of Climate Instability'.

Our live conversation in London was with

Mojisola Adebayo, artist/theatre-maker
Dan Gretton, PLATFORM
Paul Heritage, People’s Palace Projects & Queen Mary's University
Clare Patey, artist
and Robert Butler and Wallace Heim, co-editors of the Ashden Directory.

Feast on the Bridge by Clare Patey

Earth Matters On Stage

The event was organised by Theresa May, author of Greening Up Our Houses.

Amazônia, written and directed by Paul Heritage

See our page here for a video of Chaudhuri's talk and blogs from Oregon.

Chaudhuri is professor of English and Drama at New York University, and author of the influential 1994 essay, '"There Must Be a Lot of Fish in that Lake": Toward an Ecological Theater' (whom we quote in our piece on Chekhov, the proto-environmentalist) and Staging Place: the Geography of Modern Drama.

Rosenthal's performance art was among the first to engage with environmental ideas in a theatrical context. Those productions include Pangean Dreams, L.O.W. in Gaia and Amazônia.

quote from Ken Saro-Wiwa from Remember Saro-Wiwa by PLATFORM, Dan Gretton

The winning plays of the Festival competition were staged: Song of Extinction by Ellen Lewis and Atomic Farmgirl by C. Denby Lewis.

www.uoregon.edu/~ecodrama