Some are Born Green, Some Achieve Greeness: Protest Theatre and Environmental Activism

Scott Magelssen, School of Drama

Ecofriendly lifestyles have become increasingly easy and indeed celebrated in the popular media. Meanwhile, however, some of the worst environmental offenses persist, and are ramping up all over the planet. Fracking, poisonous emissions, resource decimation, and human-made disasters on a global scale are prompting activist performers to get ALL of our attentions, from peaceful performance protests to guerilla resistance.