The Box Collective to Present A SWAN SONG: VOICES ON CLIMATE CHANGE

New York In collaboration with NoPassport, The Arctic Cycle and Theatre Without Borders, the box collective joins the Climate Change Theatre Action. On November 14th at 8pm the box collective invites you to their Fort Greene Brownstone to experience a multiplicity of artistic expressions around Climate Change in this immersive theater piece. Selected playwrights, performers, dancers, musicians and filmmakers will share different perspectives, moments, rhythms and narratives touching on the theme of Climate Change. You'll choose your own adventure and move through the space at your pace. We'll be featuring plays by Neil LaBute, Catherine Banks, Chantal Bilodeau, Bryony Lavery, August Schulenburg, Dipika Guha, E.M. Lewis, Lynn Rosen, Darrah Cloud, Lisa Schlesinger, and Caridad Svich among others. Directors and performers include: Sara Fay George, Esther Artner, Andrea Goldman, Julia Watt, Sarah Kenney, Erin Daley, Michael Aurelio, Shashwat Bhushan Gupta, Sam Bruce, Aleda Bliss, Emily Wexler, Kathleen O'Neal, Dominique Brillion, Stephanie Regina, Rebeca Miller, Nicholas Corda, Jillie Mae Eddy and Sam Plattus among others. Musical performances by Calder Shilling and Luisa Muhr. And screening Julie Deffet's new film created from Koffi Kwahulé's "La vielle même merde."

"There is no greater moment than now to cultivate an awareness of the earth and our affect upon it. We invite you on this journey and we hope you'll walk away armed with a new perspective, new inspiration and new appreciation for this planet that we call home," says Andrea Goldman, the box collective founder and co-artistic director. Join the box collective artists on this one night only event.

ABOUT THE BOX

The box collective is an international company run by women that originated as an ensemble in New York. Consisting of artists who hunger to challenge the traditional theatre scene and engage their audience through a real experience, our work evokes visceral reactions beyond passive entertainment. From the beginning, the vision of the box was to create a company that would perform not only in New York, but take this approach to theatre around the world. In the past few years we've forged international relationships and collaborations throughout Europe and we continue to grow into new territories both artistically and geographically. This is theatre of immediacy, necessity and risk-taking.