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Amal at the The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.The Walk Productions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climate movement once again delivering us from the hope that the world has reached peak insanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Could a new wave of urgent theatre hold the key to tackling climate change?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kate Wyver<\/a> Thu 8 May 2025 17.00 AEST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a New Forest giant inspiring an asthmatic teen to a herd of animal puppets walking to the Arctic Circle, theatre far and wide is taking action \u2013 but with energy and optimism, rather than doom-laden tales<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Climate stories are typically defined by despair. The future we are told of is such a tragic, barren dystopia, it\u2019s hard to look at head-on. But a flood of theatre-makers are writing their way past fear into something more useful, inspiring action through love, music, puppetry and folklore. \u201cThe ones who profit most from the idea that we\u2019re doomed are the oil companies and the people massively polluting our planet,\u201d reasons playwright Flora Wilson Brown. \u201cIf we allow ourselves to think there\u2019s nothing we can do, we won\u2019t do anything. There\u2019s still time to act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These plays seek to take what often feels invisible and lay it out for an audience to see more clearly. Abroad, a stampede of animals are confronting this challenge on even larger stages. In 2021, a 12ft-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian girl, called Little Amal<\/a>, walked 8,000km (5,000 miles) from Turkey to the UK to raise awareness of the urgent plight of refugees. This summer, the same team began a 20,000km (12,400 mile) journey<\/a>, shepherding The Herds<\/a>, a group of lifesize animal puppets<\/a>, from the Congo basin to the Arctic Circle. \u201cThe people who depend on the forest are feeling the climate crisis now,\u201d says David Lan, one of the core team and former artistic director of the Young Vic. \u201cAnimals are already moving from their ancient habitat because the Earth is too hot. We wanted to dramatise this to express the way life is already being strongly affected by what\u2019s happening to the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project leapfrogs people\u2019s resistance to admit that the climate emergency is already making our home uninhabitable by placing it in front of them, in public spaces. \u2026

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2025\/may\/08\/the-beautiful-future-is-coming-hot-mess-bringing-the-outside-in-the-herds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know about you guys, but I\u2019m thinking a society which can afford to support a group of committed artists walking a giant herd of puppets on a 5000 mile journey probably isn\u2019t down to its last rice cracker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Real crisis involve food riots and people dropping dead in the streets. Fake crisis apparently require herds of puppets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The climate movement once again delivering us from the hope that the world has reached peak insanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":377944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691834986,691818056,691821462,691818262,691834987],"class_list":{"0":"post-377941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-arctic-circle","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-climate-crisis-hoax","11":"tag-the-guardian","12":"tag-youcan-youth-for-climate-action-for-nature","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/009-Amal-at-COP26-c-The-Walk-Productions-1.jpg?fit=1680%2C1121&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1AjP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":209406,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=209406","url_meta":{"origin":377941,"position":0},"title":"CFACT\u2019s Morano on Fox & Friends: \u201cWe\u2019ve reached peak climate insanity\u201d","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"20\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"CFACT\u2019s Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot, appeared on Fox and Friends to address the news that Senator Manchin will not be supporting the Democrats\u2019 new climate spending bill. 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