Sustainable theatre is an intrinsic element of We Are The Possible.
At COP28, an original production inspired by the 12 Poems will be debuted.
Bright Light Burning has been developed by Professor Adam Marple, Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre of Others, and is designed to be performed with minimal wastage or environmental impact. The play will be staged at several venues during the conference, including the UK Pavilion (Blue Zone), the Green Zone and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library in Dubai. It will be live-streamed, and a recording made available on this site in due course.
This work also has a longer-term legacy thanks to Professor Marple’s founding of an international network of theatre performance schools including the United States of America, Indonesia, Kenya, Serbia, and Australia. These schools will each create and lead their own local version of the performance.
This collaboration has underpinned the creation of a Sustainable Theatre open access website, funded by a British Council Creative Commission in Egypt, which will showcase a sustainable theatre toolkit and performances.
Professor Adam Marple and cast of Bright Light Burning
“Theatre, an ephemeral event, has become a hugely resource-intensive form of art. Staged in large buildings, they demand significant amounts of cooling and power as well as all the associated material impacts of scenery, costumes, and props. What we are developing through the Sustainable Theatre Network is an innovative approach that rethinks how and why we make theatre, where our desire to share and receive stories among an audience create a new sense of immersion without ‘costing the earth’.”
Professor Adam Marple – Co Artistic Director of The Theatre of Others
