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Below you will find the full programme for Waves: Climate Change Theatre Action<\/p>\n

Theatre Lab, 5D14, Massey University Wellington Campus, Wellington, 1pm November 1.\u00a0(Waves is a paperless event, and so we have posted the programme here, and will provide free wifi to the audience.) \u00a0For more information about Waves, or to join us, see previous post at:\u00a0Waves: Climate Change Theatre Action<\/a><\/p>\n

Acknowledgements:<\/h1>\n

Thank you to \u2018Theatre Without Borders\u2019, \u2018The Arctic Cycle\u2019 and \u2018NoPassport\u2019, in particular Caridad Svich (recipient of 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre), Chantal Bilodeau (Artistic Director of The Arctic Cycle), and Elaine Avila (Recipient, Mellon Foundation Environmental Arts Commission, Pomona College, Los Angeles) for curating and coordinating the global programme of Climate Change Theatre Action 2015 from bases in L.A. and New York.\u00a0 Through the vision and hard work of these three women, from today (the global launch) to mid-December, more than 100 Climate Change Theatre Action events will be staged in 22 countries, featuring the work of more than 40 distinguished international playwrights.\u00a0 This is the third and largest global theatre action event organised by the team, the others being \u2018The Way of Water\u2019 (2012, theatre action on oil spills) and \u2018Gun Control\u2019 (2013).<\/p>\n

Waves<\/em>, the only Climate Change Theatre Action event in Aotearoa and the first in the world of the global schedule, is produced and directed by Elspeth Tilley, with lighting design by Emma Bennetts of Backlight, film editing and multimedia technical support by Samuel Williams, and video recording by Mark Steelsmith. Scene-change visuals between items are from the Pacific Climate Change documentary \u2018Storm Islands\u2019, provided courtesy of director Steve Menzies.\u00a0 The Massey University School of English & Media Studies fed and costumed the actors among many and various other supportive inputs.\u00a0 Artcop21 (the global cultural programme of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change 2015, of which Waves<\/em> is a registered part) provided free hosting for our event at http:\/\/www.artcop21.com\/events\/waves\/<\/a>\u00a0 Link to other Artcop21 events worldwide from that page.<\/p>\n

A huge thank you to all the Waves<\/em> performers (whose intriguing details are at the end of the programme) and authors for providing their time, talents and inspirational creative work to Climate Change Theatre Action to help contribute a crucial cultural and artistic element to the worldwide conversation about our planet\u2019s wellbeing. \u00a0A huge thank you to you, our audience, for coming out today to show your support for the role of the arts in provoking new thinking about the issues that matter. Follow the global project at #climatechangetheatreaction to see more events unfold worldwide over the next six weeks.<\/p>\n

Programme<\/h1>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Item 1: Danny\u2019s monologue from \u2018The Atom Room\u2019 by Philip Braithwaite<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read by Philip Braithwaite<\/strong><\/p>\n

Danny and Sarah are a modern couple.\u00a0 They are living in a long-distance relationship: he is in Wellington, and she is on Mars. But this is a universe where the Earth has been catastrophically damaged by tsunamis and nuclear meltdowns, and the rich elite are moving to outer colonies and Mars. <\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah is an engineer and scientist in the Mars programme. Danny is on his own on Earth, working for Envirocorp, the only organisation left that looks out for the environment. Every now and then they can meet in The Atom Room: the most advanced virtual avatar programme in the galaxy. In his monologue, Danny is engaged in a series of interviews, trying to talk about the death of his planet, and why he refuses to leave it. <\/em><\/p>\n

About the author: Philip Braithwaite has won multiple playwriting awards\u00a0including the 2001 BBC World Service International Radio Playwriting Competition, the 2013-14 William Evans Playwriting Fellowship, and New Zealand\u2019s top playwriting prize, the Adam NZ Play Award, in 2014.<\/p>\n

His work has been produced in New Zealand, Australia and Europe, and he has collaborated with the Royal Court Theatre in London, the BBC and SEEyD theatre company. His radio plays have been produced on the BBC World Service and Radio New Zealand. Oh and he once had a beer with Alan Rickman.\u00a0 You will be the first in the world to hear a reading from this brand new work.<\/p>\n

Item 2: M\u014drehu and T\u012bt\u012b by David Geary<\/strong><\/p>\n

M\u014drehu \u2013 Hamish Boyle <\/strong><\/p>\n

T\u012bt\u012b \u2013 Moira Fortin-Cornejo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Al Gore\/Aurora \u2013 Sara McBride<\/strong><\/p>\n

M\u014drehu is an ancient male punk rocker tuatara. In the M\u0101ori language of the Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand, M\u014drehu means survivor or remnant. Tuatara means \u2018spiny back\u2019. Tuatara are rare, medium-sized reptiles found only in New Zealand. They are the last survivors of an order of reptiles that thrived in the age of the dinosaurs. M\u014drehu is stuck on a drifting raft with T\u012bt\u012b, a young female sooty shearwater bird, muttonbird, Puffinsus griseus, or t\u012bt\u012b (pron. Teetee). The young of these birds are a traditional food source for M\u0101ori, preserved in copious amounts of their own fat and salt. So though they may perish in large numbers before reaching adulthood, the t\u012bt\u012b can rest assured those who eat them regularly will die prematurely of heart attacks.<\/em><\/p>\n

AG\/Aurora Australis – a famous person and The Southern Lights \u2013 makes an appearance as the raft nears Antarctica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

About the author: David Geary writes plays, television, film, fiction, and haiku on twitter @gearsgeary. He is of New Zealand M\u0101ori and P\u0101keh\u0101 heritage, and is now also a citizen of Canada. He teaches at Capilano University, North Vancouver, in the Indigenous<\/p>\n

Filmmaking and Documentary programs, leads playwrights\u2019 workshops for Playwrights Theatre Centre, and works as a freelance dramaturge. He is the author of \u2018Lovelock\u2019s Dream Run\u2019, co-wrote and co-directed the television documentary \u2018The Smell of Money\u2019 and his short story collection, \u2018A Man of the People\u2019 was published in 2003. He has worked as a scriptwriter and storyliner for television including Shortland Street, Mercy Peak, Jackson\u2019s Wharf and Hard Out.\u00a0 He won the Bruce Mason Playwrights\u2019 Award in 1991 and the Adam Foundation Playwrights\u2019 Award in 1994. \u2018M\u014drehu and T\u012bt\u012b\u2019 was written specifically for Climate Change Theatre Action 2015.\u00a0 This is its world premiere.<\/p>\n

Item 3: Climate Change Poems from Aotearoa
\nReadings selected and presented by Dr Ingrid Horrocks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many recent poems by New Zealand writers grapple, directly or indirectly, with questions of climate change. In \u201cThe Uprising,\u201d which appears in nature poet Dinah Hawken\u2019s latest collection, Ocean and Stone (2015), Hawken considers the rising oceans. So does Lynn Jenner in her book of poems, Lost and Gone Away (2015). Several Massey graduate students, among them poets Lynn Davidson, Sarah-Jane Barnett, and Janet Newman, have spent time exploring new ways to engage with and write about the environment. Ingrid will read fragments from some of these recent works. <\/em><\/p>\n

About the authors: Dinah Hawken was awarded the Lauris Edmond Award for Distinguished Contribution to Poetry; Lynn Jenner has won both the Adam Prize in Creative Writing and the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry; Lynn Davidson is widely published and just completed her PhD in Creative Writing at Massey University; poet and Massey creative writing tutor Sarah-Jane Barnett just released her new (and second) poetry collection, titled Work; and Massey Master of Creative Writing student Janet Newman just \u00a0won the Open category of the New Zealand Poet Society\u2019s 2015 International Poetry Competition.<\/p>\n

Item 4: Flotsam by Elspeth Tilley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mariana \u2013 Anna Barden Shaw <\/strong><\/p>\n

Natalia \u2013 Charlotte Tilley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stefan \u2013 Jack Hitchens <\/strong><\/p>\n

Mariana has a tough job, judging climate-change-refugee applications. Her teenaged daughter Natalia has been reading Facebook and is less than impressed with her mother\u2019s decisions.\u00a0 Things don\u2019t look good, weather-wise – but it\u2019s OK, Mariana can afford to build a nice big wall to keep it all at bay.<\/em><\/p>\n

About the author: Elspeth Tilley is a graduate of the University of Queensland drama programme, the La Boite improvisation, devising and writing for theatre courses, the Gold Coast Institute of Technology acting courses 1 and 2, and the Queensland Film Academy screen actor training programme. An experienced actor for stage and screen, she now teaches theatre and creative activism at Massey University Wellington, publishes on performance and postcolonialism, and enjoys directing regular student theatre both scripted and devised.\u00a0 She was inspired to write \u2018Flotsam\u2019 to illuminate the massive damage and inequalities climate change is wreaking in the Pacific.\u00a0 \u2018Flotsam\u2019 is an official Climate Change Theatre Action selection, chosen by the curators for inclusion in the worldwide programme.\u00a0 This is its world premiere.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Item 5: Earth Duet by E.M. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read by: \u00a0Grace Bucknell and Jack Hitchens<\/strong>
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\nAn elegiac poem, for two voices.<\/em><\/p>\n

About the author: E.M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, librettist, and teacher of playwriting. She was a finalist for the 2014 Shakespeare\u2019s Sister Fellowship, received the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University in 2010-2011, and won both the ATCA\/Steinberg Award and the Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for her play \u2018Song of Extinction\u2019. She won the Primus Prize for her play \u2018Heads\u2019. Her work has been produced around the world – and we are very excited to be able to bring it for the first time to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Item 6: Our Corner of the World by Jacqueline E. Lawton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily \u2013 Alice Guerin<\/strong><\/p>\n

David \u2013 Tobias Nash <\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily and David have moved to Detroit, where you can buy a house for a dollar. Emily stands on the porch of their once-condemned new home that they are slowly renovating. The lawn that surrounds the house is covered with abandoned tires and dirt. There is a cracked sidewalk and an empty street.\u00a0 Emily stands on the porch and cradles a young baby in her arms. David enters on a bike. Emily does not turn to look at him.<\/em><\/p>\n

About the author: Jacqueline E. Lawton was named one of the top 30 national leading black playwrights in the USA by Arena Stage\u2019s American Voices New Play Institute and is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the 2015-2016 Kenan Institute\u2019s Creative Collaboratory Project Grant, two Young Artist Program Grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for Playwriting; the Ellsworth P. and Virginia Conkle Endowed Scholarship for Drama; the Jean McKenzie Schenkkan Endowed Scholarship in Playwriting; and the Morton Brown, Nellie Lea Brown, and Minelma Brown Lockwood Endowed Scholarship in Playwriting.<\/p>\n

Item 7: Expressive Arts Club Climate Change Creative Writing Competition Finalists <\/strong>
\nMelting Clocks, by Braidicea Warriner<\/strong>, read by Braidicea Warriner<\/p>\n

A Race to Extinction, by Stevie Greeks<\/strong>, read by Elspeth Tilley<\/p>\n

Fade Out, by Sophia Dempsey, <\/strong>read by Sophia Dempsey<\/p>\n

Item 8: Prizegiving
\n<\/strong>Announcement and presentation of the prize for best piece of Expressive Arts Club Climate Change Creative Writing<\/p>\n

Item 9: Korero
\n<\/strong>Please stay for a chat. We invite you to ask questions of the performers and artists, express your views, and generally linger for a relaxed korero about climate change and what we can do about it.<\/p>\n

About the Fantastic Waves Performers:<\/h2>\n

Alice Guerin<\/strong>.\u00a0 Last year Alice played a Russian spy and a Swedish housewife in the same show.\u00a0 She\u2019s excited to be in Waves as she truly cares about climate change and believes it is a topic that needs to be talked about more.<\/p>\n

Anna Barden Shaw <\/strong>wanted to be part of the Climate Change Theatre Action as it is something that she feels passionately about. Over the years she\u2019s played all sorts of roles from witches to prostitutes, the last being a settler\u2019s wife in \u2018The Ragged\u2019 earlier this year. Now she finally gets to play someone a little more mundane – a lawyer, a mother of a politically aware teenage girl (which she also has!). Her astrology always said she should be a lawyer – Anna figures this is the closest she will get.<\/p>\n

Braidicea Warriner<\/strong> recently completed a Bachelor of Arts where she developed a passion for writing screenplays. The weirdest thing she\u2019s ever written is a love poem from a grassy lawn to a willow tree. Some of her favourite-sounding words include; effervescent, epiphany, clandestine and cacophony.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Tilley<\/strong> has studied drama from age 7 and has distinctions in Trinity College London musical theatre and performance exams. Previous stage roles include an orphan, a wolf and the captain of a sinking ship, with her favourite being Rapunzel for \u2018Fractured Fairytales\u2019.<\/p>\n

Grace Bucknell<\/strong> fell in love with performing when she was cast as chief ferret in \u2018Toad of Toad Hall\u2019 aged 10. She has studied drama for 10 years and is completing her diploma.<\/p>\n

Hamish Boyle<\/strong> has spent the past the past three years regularly escaping into Wellington from the Hutt, only to stumble around the stage and screen and call it acting. Credits include Summer Shakespeare 2015 and 2016, Young and Hungry 2015, and Alone it Stands with Lord Lackbeards.<\/p>\n

Ingrid Horrocks<\/strong> is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey Wellington. Ingrid is a poet and nonfiction writer. She has published books of poetry and travel writing, and her work has been anthologised in collections such as Essential New Zealand Poems<\/em> and New Zealand Love Poems<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jack Hitchens.\u00a0 <\/strong>So far Jack has been in 6 different musicals, including The Gabe, from New Zealand\u2019s original \u2018Next to Normal\u2019 cast which premiered mid last year. He originally had his stage debut, wearing a full red ruby dress with intense high heels and bright red lipstick, as a sassy sister, Ruby, in the pantomime, Pantalot.<\/p>\n

Moira Fortin-Cornejo<\/strong>.\u00a0 Birds seem to like Moira… she has played many birds before, and from different cultures, Chilean and Rapa Nui.\u00a0 Now she\u2019s very happy to play a New Zealand bird… not a kiwi… but nearly!<\/p>\n

Sara McBride<\/strong> played Santa when she was 12, so gender bending roles are nothing new to her. The play was about Santa being forced to go a health and fitness camp to lose weight.\u00a0 In one scene, she had to run through the audience and … her pants accidentally fell down in front of everyone. Like the true professional she is, Sara pulled her pants up and kept acting. That early brush with mass embarrassment didn\u2019t diminish her love of theatre as she has continued acting and singing throughout her adult life.\u00a0 Currently, Sara is part of Wellington Footlights, where her specialties include singing, dancing, and making sure her costume doesn\u2019t fall off.<\/p>\n

Sophia Dempsey<\/strong> is a veteran of three NaNoWriMos, twice winner of the senior high school poetry competition, and likes to indulge in Facebook conversations that look like philosophy students got drunk on metaphor.<\/p>\n

Stevie Greeks<\/strong> is an Expressive Arts student, who believes in the power of the written word to start important discussions.<\/p>\n

Tobias Nash<\/strong> is a writer and student whose acting experience comes mostly from school plays, helping out with university projects and pretending to be interested in other people\u2019s opinions, but he\u2019s keen to broaden his horizons and try something new.<\/p>\n

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