In A.R.T.’s “Ocean Filibuster,” an Argument for a Sea Change, with a Dash of Spectacle

Ocean Filibuster is receiving its world premiere at the Loeb Drama Center through March 13th

By Christopher Wallenberg, The Boston Globe

In several of their immersive, large-scale performance pieces, Obie Award-winning theater makers Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl, who go by the moniker PearlDamour, have explored the connections between environmental and human systems — and the failure to see that we’re not separate from the natural world but an integral part of it. In their 2011 work “How to Build a Forest,” actors constructed and then dismantled a simulated forest over the course of eight hours. For “Lost in the Meadow,” staged at the Longwood Gardens outside Philadelphia, audiences wearing headphones watched and listened in on characters in a post-apocalyptic landscape while the Earth spoke through a massive megaphone tower.

So it was a no-brainer for PearlDamour when the artistic staff of the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge and Dan Schrag of the Harvard University Center for the Environment offered them a commission as part of an initiative to bring science and environmental issues to the stage and “communicate the urgency of the climate crisis to a broader public.”

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