Six Puppets and a Fish
(not to mention the fisherman)
This play was first created over the summer of 1996, for the McMaster Summer Arts Festival, by The Environmental Theatre Workshop. ETW was an advocacy theatre group that explored ways to increase community awareness about the local environment. For three years, it was part of the McMaster Eco-Research Program for Hamilton Harbour (Ecowise), which brought together researchers in the sciences, social sciences and humanities for an interdisciplinary study of the local ecosystem. See ETW.
SIX PUPPETS AND A FISH (NOT TO MENTION THE FISHERMAN) was created collectively by the cast and crew, and scripted by the director. The story is based on a Grimm folktale, "The Fisherman and His Wife," but it has been changed to suit what we wanted to say about the environment.
It was performed out-of-doors just above Cootes Paradise in its first production, and had an afterlife touring to schools.
For a discussion of advocacy theatre, theatre and the environment, and the relationship of scientific research and performance, see ‘Common Sense and Dead Metaphors’ and other materials in ETW.
SIX PUPPETS AND A FISH (NOT TO MENTION THE FISHERMAN) was created collectively by the cast and crew, and scripted by the director. The story is based on a Grimm folktale, "The Fisherman and His Wife," but it has been changed to suit what we wanted to say about the environment.
It was performed out-of-doors just above Cootes Paradise in its first production, and had an afterlife touring to schools.
For a discussion of advocacy theatre, theatre and the environment, and the relationship of scientific research and performance, see ‘Common Sense and Dead Metaphors’ and other materials in ETW.