Playwright Competition Peace Plays theme links Pine Mountain Club

What is Eco-Drama? Plays that:

**help us think about the planet and nature rather than the "art of the play"

**provide new endings to our global conflicts, rather than "the end of everything" negativism

**may be only "playful eco-fables"

**bring together environmentalism and Readers Theater

**question our ideas about values, faith, and identity

**combine problem-stating with problem-solving

**are not about "eco-warriors" but about ordinary people making up their own minds and doing what is ordinarily possible

**see us recognising our part in and responsibility to the natural world and see us working with nature and not against it

**connects the individual to the implications of their actions and their place in the world

**stimulate audiences towards the radical and imaginative thinking necessary to understand a world dominated by environmental challenges

**are stories of almost anyone--the poorest of the poor--the richest of the rich--nature treats us equally

**tell a story--you hear it--it enchants you--you tell it to someone else-- nature gets heard

**tell why we care most about what is closest at hand

**empower our environmental survival with cooperation across oceans and continents

**utters things that are not otherwise said