This play-reading event will feature current teaching artist students of the National School of Drama, Theatre-in-Education wing, Tripura, India. The student artists will collaborate on directing and performing the plays with and for each other to consider how artists from various places address issues through their work. The student artists are currently devising their own play related to climate change, which they will present to schools in November 2019.
The plays will include:
Chantal Bilodeau – IT STARTS WITH ME
Sunny Drake – ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF ANY MEANING
Alister Emerson – SIX POLAR BEARS FELL OUT OF THE SKY THIS MORNING
Jordan Hall – THE DONATION
Vitor Jatobá – FAILED EXPERIMENT
Marcia Johnson – ENGLISH PLEASE
Philip Luswata – WARRIOR OF THE HEAVENS
Abhishek Majumdar – THE ARROW
Mary Kathryn Nagle – AMERICA’S FIRST ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Lana Nasser – THE BUTTERFLY THAT PERSISTED
Shy Richardson & Karina Yager – TRÉS MARIAS: CATEGORIES AND LUZ
Kiana Rivera – KUMU KUKUI