Climate Change Theatre Action is a worldwide festival of short plays about the climate crisis, performed at events across the globe. It is presented biennially to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings.
Organised by The Arts & Climate Initiative, CCTA uses storytelling and live performance to foster dialogue about our global climate crisis.
Every other year, 50 professional playwrights, representing all inhabited continents as well as several cultures and Indigenous nations, are commissioned to write five-minute plays about an aspect of the climate crisis based on a prompt. This collection of plays is then available to potential organizers interested in presenting an event in their community during the festival’s time window.
Beaford are delighted to have been taking part in these global performances since 2021 in collaboration with multi story theatre.
All Good Things Must Begin
Following our contribution to Climate Change Theatre Action 2023, Beaford’s Director, Mark Wallace was invited to write an essay to be included in the published anthology of plays - All Good Things Must Begin.
He created a piece that details the process involved in our involvement in this event; with a particular focus the the collaborative approach that we so often use in our work with communities and arts professionals.
The book is available to purchase as an ebook or paperback (printed to order).
About the publication
The climate crisis demands an imaginative leap: We will create a just and regenerative world only if we dare to conjure it and use our vision to guide us through the difficulties. All Good Things Must Begin features fifty playwrights from around the world, commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2023, who take up this existential challenge. They share their vision of what the future may hold with humor, poetry, playfulness, hope, courage, but also sometimes grief and pain.
