Theme Resources

• Help us think about the planet and nature rather than the "art of the play.”
• Provide new endings to our global conflicts, rather than "the end of everything" negativism.
• May be only "playful eco-fables."
• Bring together environmentalism and Readers Theater.
• Question our ideas about values, faith, and identity.
• Combine problem-stating with problem-solving.
• Are not about "eco-warriors" but about ordinary people making up their own minds and doing what is ordinarily possible.
• See us recognizing our part in and responsibility to the natural world and see us working with nature and not against it.
• Connects the individual to the implications of their actions and their place in the world.
• Stimulate audiences towards the radical and imaginative thinking necessary to understand a world dominated by environmental challenges.
• Are stories of almost anyone--the poorest of the poor--the richest of the rich--nature treats us all equally.
• Tell a story--you hear it--it enchants you--you tell it to someone else-- nature gets heard.
• Tell why we care most about what is closest at hand.
• Empower our environmental survival with cooperation across oceans and continents.
• Utters things that are not otherwise said.

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