The People’s Pop-Up Climate Justice Theatre was created by Theatre Makers for the purpose of participating in the activities surrounding the Global Rise for Climate March in San Francisco on September 8, 2018.
The project involved presenting four performances each of two plays:
Ecopocalypse: a dystopian play in which corporations and the wealthy continue the pursuit of profit at the expense of the environment
Animal Factory Farm: a play portraying a fable about animals treated poorly by humans who band together and learn that humans are risking not only animal lives, but everything about our way of life on earth
Theatre Makers is a project of the Ritual Art Troupe, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
The first four performances of Ecopocalypse had the following cast:
Julia(n) Butterfly Abbey….Ben Perlman
Rajendra Shiva….David-Henry Bennett
Barron Pruitt….Nadeem Anjum
Ivanka Koch….Khadijah “Katie” Ford Garvin
Bodyguard….Matt
Air Vendor….Iryna Lymar
Protestors….Matt, Alexander Milbert, Stardust
Counter-Protestors….The Audience!
The People’s Pop-Up Climate Justice Theatre was created by Theatre Makers. Theatre Makers is a project of the Ritual Art Troupe, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Our Thanks to…
Playwrights: Iryna Lymar and Stardust (thanks to Playwrights Circle critiques)
Sets: Spiraleena, Julie Neva, Meg Duff, Matt, Lisa R. Prochello, Joaquín Sandoval, Stardust
Props and Costumes: Khadijah “Katie” Ford Garvin, Ben Perlman, Larry Ackerman, Michelle Tang, Cayenne, Rickster, Keith Hennessy, Mrs. Clear Plastic, Iryna Lymar, Stardust
Animal Factory Farm is a play portraying a fable about animals treated poorly by humans who band together and learn that humans are risking not only animal lives, but everything about our way of life on earth.
The first four performances of Animal Factory Farm had the following cast:
Chicken Little….Khadijah “Katie” Ford Garvin
Mad Cow….David-Henry Bennett
Sassy Salmon….Alexander Milbert, Ben Perlman
Guerrilla Gorilla….Nadeem Anjum
Human….Matt, Iryna Lymar
Human Race….The Audience!
The People’s Pop-Up Climate Justice Theatre was created by Theatre Makers. Theatre Makers is a project of the Ritual Art Troupe, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Our Thanks to…
Playwrights: Iryna Lymar and Stardust (thanks to Playwrights Circle critiques)
Sets: Spiraleena, Meg Duff, Matt, Lisa R. Prochello, Joaquín Sandoval, Stardust
Props and Costumes: Khadijah “Katie” Ford Garvin, Ben Perlman, Larry Ackerman, Michelle Tang, Iryna Lymar, Stardust
Sound: Stardust, Andrew Chin
Logistics: Julien Jourdan
Videography/Editing: Peter Menchini
Funding: Audience Donations, Brad, Stardust
In-Kind Donations: Arizmendi Bakery, Stardust
Performance of Music for Titles and Credits: Friction Quartet
Kari Barclay (he, his, him) is a director, playwright, and researcher completing his PhD in Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University. Originally from Washington, DC, he has made work regionally and in New York at venues including the San Francisco Mime Troupe Studio, Round House Theater, and Manbites Dog. His original play, “Can I Hold You?”, was one of the first plays about asexuality performed in the U.S. and enjoyed runs in San Francisco and Brooklyn. Kari is a co-writer of the Theatre Maker play “20/20”. More at kari-barclay.com
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