Singing and Dancing in the Rain: Climate Change as Youth Musical Theatre

埃克塞特大学戏剧系与托尔拜门阶艺术学院之间的这种合作，使年轻人以艺术为基础的方法来应对气候变化。它在他们熟悉的戏剧制作环境中与他们会面，并激励他们参与艺术和人文气候变化研究。他们还将参与气候变化和气候通信的科学研究，作为与COP 26同时进行的创造性进程的一部分。该项目旨在：1。鼓励参与“门阶艺术”戏剧制作活动的年轻人将他们的作品置于一系列与气候变化及其表现形式密不可分的文化实践中; 2.增强青年人的权能，使他们能够通过自己的创造性实践应对气候变化来实现变化;3.使年轻人能够开展与其戏剧制作相关的气候变化科学研究;4.将他们的实践与COP 26的艺术作品结合起来。该项目将借鉴PI O 'Malley在戏剧和气候变化方面的研究专长以及CI Walcon在应用戏剧实践方面的研究专长。重点扩展奥马利的现有研究（AHRC外箱; AHRC大气剧院; NERC气候故事），并进一步支持她以前的音乐剧音乐学院培训。在气候科学方面，CI Peter Stott拥有世界知名的气候科学专业知识和丰富的经验，包括与艺术家合作的独特研究兴趣（NERC Climate Stories）。费利西蒂利金斯（也NERC气候故事），带来了她的气候通信从气象局的教育和推广团队的经验。因此，这一建议通过新的前景化艺术和人文方法扩展了先前的合作。在为期四周的会议期间，DAS的年轻人将参加以实践为基础的音乐剧研讨会，重点是由弗格森和奥马利主持的天气和气候的表现。这些将使用介绍艺术和人文方法来应对气候变化及其与文化和社会的关系，作为表演练习的一部分。从年轻人已经熟悉的片段开始（其中一些是他们自己选择的），参与者将上演音乐数字来强调这项研究。作为一个桥梁活动，年轻人将参加由本科生领导的埃克塞特的DRA 3092戏剧气候变化模块的研讨会，为他们提供一个机会，以满足戏剧实践在大学学习。这项活动也将使本科生在社区环境中探索他们的实践。在学期的第二部分，年轻人将设计和表演自己的气候变化音乐剧，包括剧本创作，编舞和作曲。作为进程的一部分，他们将与Stott和Liggins协商，跟踪COP 26的进展。12月将在佩恩顿的皇宫剧院为受邀观众举行演出。作品的元素也将在佩恩顿灯笼游行中与更广泛的公众观众分享。与Strand One平行，来自Doorstep Youth Theatre的另一组年轻人将在Strand Two中创建两个播客。第一个播客将介绍他们对响应COP 26的艺术品的研究。第二部分将采访Strand One的参与者。

This collaboration between the University of Exeter's Drama department and Doorstep Arts, Torbay engages young people with arts-based approaches to addressing climate change. It meets them in their familiar theatre-making environment and inspires them to engage with arts and humanities climate change research. They will also engage with scientific research into climate change and climate communications as part of the creative process running concurrently with COP 26. The project aims to:1. inspire the young people who participate in theatre-making activities at Doorstep Arts to locate their work within a set of cultural practices that are inextricable from climate change and its representations; 2. empower the young people to effect change by addressing climate change in their own creative practice;3. enable the young people to carry out their own research into climate change science, as pertinent to their theatre-making;4. contextualise their practice alongside the artworks accompanying COP 26. The project will draw on the research expertise of the PI O'Malley in theatre and climate change and the CI Walcon in applied theatre practice. The focus extends O'Malley's existing research (AHRC Outside the Box; AHRC Atmospheric Theatres; NERC Climate Stories) and is further supported by her prior conservatoire training in musical theatre. In climate science, the CI Peter Stott's world renowned climate science expertise and extensive experience includes a unique research interest in collaborating with artists (NERC Climate Stories). Felicity Liggins (also NERC Climate Stories), brings her experience of climate communications from the Met Office's education and outreach team. This proposal therefore extends prior collaborations by newly foregrounding arts and humanities approaches. During four weekly sessions the DAS young people will participate in practice-based musical theatre workshops focussed on representations of weather and climate, facilitated by Ferguson and O'Malley. These will use introduce arts and humanities approaches to climate change and its relation to culture and society as part of performance exercises. Beginning with extracts already familiar to the young people (some of which they will self-select), participants will stage musical numbers to emphasise this research. As a bridge activity, the young people will participate in a workshop led by undergraduates on Exeter's DRA3092 Theatre for a Changing Climate module, offering them an opportunity to encounter theatre practice as studied at University. This activity will also enable the undergraduates to explore their practice in a community setting. For the second part of the term the young people will devise and perform their own climate change musical, including script-writing, choreography and composition. They will consult with Stott and Liggins as part of the process, tracking the progress of COP 26. A performance will take place for an invited audience at the Palace Theatre, Paignton in December. Elements of the work will also be shared with a wider public audience at the Paignton Lantern Procession. Parallel to Strand One, a separate group of young people from the Doorstep Youth Theatre will work to create two podcasts in Strand Two. The first podcast will feature their research into artworks responding to COP 26. The second will feature interviews with the Strand One participants.