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

 





February 24, 2022

 

 

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

 *By Christopher Wallenberg, [The Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/24/arts/arts-ocean-filibuster-an-argument-sea-change-with-bit-spectacle/)*

 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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 Read the rest of the article via *[The Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/24/arts/arts-ocean-filibuster-an-argument-sea-change-with-bit-spectacle/)*.



 

 

 



 

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