On Monday 4 December 2023, the Department of Film, Theatre & Television (FTT) hosted the first Reading Climate Theatre Festival, where a series of new, short plays about the climate crisis by international playwrights were presented in Minghella Studios at the University of Reading. The Festival brought together Year 1 FTT Theatre students and MRes FTT students with students from local community partner schools in Reading – Little Heath and Leighton Park – to creatively explore this important topic through short stagings or films of these new plays as part of the Climate Change Theatre Action programme, a worldwide festival presented to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings.

In this video, staff and students share their experiences of participating in the Festival and they reiterate the valuable role theatre and arts can play in calling attention to environmental issues shaping the world today.

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