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The Penguins

  • Where the Wild Things Were….

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Stuttgart, Germany

  • The Time Is Now: Climate Change Theatre Action at Eckerd College

  • Te Kunenga Ki Pūrehuroa Massey University CCTA Aotearoa 2025

  • Phoenix Theatre UVIC

  • Animals for Activism: Miami University’s Theatre and Social Change Class Projects

  • Climate Change Theatre Action at Hamburg University

  • Climate Change Theatre Action at Augustana University

  • The Time Is Now! Climate Change Theatre Action at London’s National Maritime Museum

  • Theatre for our Future: Climate Action across Generations (Ottawa, Canada)

  • The Time Is Now: Climate Change Theatre Action – Vancouver

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Spokane, Washington at Gonzaga University

  • ‘A Time To Act’ in Greenville, North Carolina

  • CCTA East Lansing – CMERC

  • CCTA East Lansing – Beal Botanical Garden

  • Comedy, Creatures, and Post-Human Perspectives

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Wales

  • Climate Change Theatre Action at Arizona State University

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Ealing

  • The Spaces Between Us

  • A Morning of Reading for Climate Change Theatre Action

  • In/Visible’s Biannual Staged Reading Series

  • The Penguins at Spotswood College

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Arkansas

  • Climate Change Theatre Action Symposium

  • Take Ten for Climate Change

  • Climate Change Theatre Action at Eckerd College

  • Theatre for a Changing Climate

  • Birthday Party!

  • Climate Change Theatre Action Podcast

  • The New York Landing

  • Climate Change Theatre Action at the University of Colorado

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Shangai

  • Elspeth Tilley

Commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action
2017 – Where is the Hope?
“
So now there’s 200,000 of us again, back to what it was before they came.
”

A group of penguins observe and mock two scientists studying the Antarctic environment. While the penguins find humor in the scientists’ actions and habits, they also acknowledge that humanity’s impact on the environment can have both positive and negative consequences.