AnthropoScene

The Fall 2022 Mainstage production was a theatrical event which explored how the alienation that results from humans’ supremacist behaviour towards one another contributes to the climate crisis, as well as engages the ethics of theatricalizing the present climate emergency.

It playfully mingles elements of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, real-life figures including Toussaint L’Ouverture and various youth climate justice activists, and fictional characters in a scenographic environment that suggests multiple locations and time periods. The scenes of AnthropoScene are drawn from the developing script of AnthrApology.

Twelve DART students performed, and thirty others served in creative and backstage roles, in this original work written and directed by David Fancy, designed by David Vivian, and choreographed by Trevor Copp and Colin Anthes, with live music performed by Devon Fornelli.

Event listing at the Department of Dramatic Arts.

Article about AnthropoScene at Brock University.

Article about AnthropoScene at the Department of Dramatic Arts.