CLIMATE CONVERSATIONS: Why are we talking about the Climate Crisis and Theatre?

The Donmar Warehouse Podcast

Climate Conversations is a new podcast series, bringing together Donmar directors and leading climate and social justice thinkers. We want to better understand what it means to make theatre in the context of the climate crisis. How can the stories we tell, and the ways we tell them, contribute to a positive future? This podcast series was recorded during an 18-month research project the Donmar is currently undertaking (2021-2023). Bringing together our artists and staff, facilitated by Zoë, this research is exploring new ways of working and thinking in order to create the conditions for more climate-careful theatre-making. Curated by Donmar Artistic Associate and Climate Dramaturg, Zoë Svendsen. Hosted by Clare Slater, Head of New Work, Donmar Warehouse. Produced by Josh Parr, Dadiow Lin and Heather Pasfield for the Donmar Warehouse Audio Recording: Ed Borgnis, Simon Hendry, Max Hunter Audio Edit and Mix: Ed Borgnis - Further reading (Suggested by Zoë Svendsen) Naomi Klein, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (2019) Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21 st -century Economist (2017) Kate Fletcher, Earth Logic (2019) Website: https://earthlogic.info/ Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2017) Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021) Cara Daggett, ‘Petromasculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire’ in Millenium: Journal of International Studies (2018) Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0305829818775817 Indra Adnan, The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility in the Fractal Age (2021) George Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage: a New Politics for an Age of Crisis (2017) Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011)