Students at Southern Arkansas University will host a free staged reading at Harton Theatre at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, as part of the global Climate Change Theatre Action event.
The CCTA event is a worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented biennially in support of the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings.
The selected short plays and monologues were written by playwrights from all over the world, and SAU is the only CCTA organization in Arkansas.
SAU Theatre Management students are producing this free event in the hopes of initiating constructive conversation about climate change. Each play is being directed and performed by SAU students in a staged reading style, and audiences are invited to discuss the plays with the actors and directors after the presentation.
Student directors include Ta’Ru Harris, Jared Smith, Mikayla McCoy, Eboni Edwards, Katharae Patterson, Bodee Starr, Kyle Kidd, and Parker Hamm.
CCTA 2017 is a collaboration between the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, NoPassport Theatre Alliance, The Arctic Cycle, Theatre Without Borders and York University.
