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On Theatre’s Responsibility in the Spectacle of Climate Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2023

Abstract

Using “climate change” to name a recent, unnatural, and rapid process of warming that is the result of pollution conceals the causal order of events. Those who generate this semantic confusion are in the service of those who produce the global warming at the root of accelerated climate change. Theatre can pass judgment on them, as a virtual, possible, and probable Areopagus of our age.

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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