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Staging Dystopias of Desire and the Poetics of Grief
Essay
Staging Dystopias of Desire and the Poetics of Grief
by Theresa May
27 June 2023
Remembering Ways of Knowing
Essay
Remembering Ways of Knowing
A Conversation between JD Stokely and Javiera Benavente
by JD Stokely, Javiera Benavente
16 March 2022
Ground Lessons: Performing with the Potato People at Bread and Puppet
Essay
Ground Lessons: Performing with the Potato People at Bread and Puppet
by Denise Rogers Valenzuela
26 January 2022
A man in white robes looks up to the sky.
Staging Dystopias of Desire and the Poetics of Grief
Essay

Staging Dystopias of Desire and the Poetics of Grief

27 June 2023

Theresa May discusses the way that two contemporary plays with dystopian settings—Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying by Jessica Huang and Somewhere by Melissa Treviño Orta—lean away from typical tropes of destruction and individualism by instead centering care, kinship, reciprocity, and interdependence.

A collage of several pictures of people's faces placed side by side.
Remembering Ways of Knowing
Essay

Remembering Ways of Knowing

A Conversation between JD Stokely and Javiera Benavente

16 March 2022

JD Stokely and Javiera Benavente discuss the ways the navigate they complexities of commoning while embracing listening, unlearning, and care in their creative practices and educational paths.

Several performers with large puppets standing in a field.
Ground Lessons: Performing with the Potato People at Bread and Puppet
Essay

Ground Lessons: Performing with the Potato People at Bread and Puppet

26 January 2022

Denise Rogers Valenzuela shares the way that learning to perform improvised crowd scenes with large, flat puppets—called naked population puppets or potato people—encourages an embodied practice that resists individualism.

Livestreaming events from the Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival
Video

Livestreaming events from the Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival

Sandglass Theater in Vermont

Friday 21 September 2018
Vermont, United States

Sandglass Theater presents events from the Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival in Vermont livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Friday 21 September to Sunday 23 September.

several large puppets
Breaking Away from the Institution
Essay

Breaking Away from the Institution

How to Take Control of Your Education

5 September 2018

Theatre student Abigail Warhus talks about feeling stuck at university and taking her education into her own hands.

Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival
Video

Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival

Saturday 12 September 2015
Putney, VT, United States

Sandglass Theater in Putney, Vermont, USA presents six conversations from the Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival livestreaming on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday, September 12 to Sunday, September 20. In Twitter, use #howlround and follow @howlroundtv.

365 Women a Year Project for World Theatre Day 2015
Video

365 Women a Year Project for World Theatre Day 2015

Friday 27 March 2015
New York City, NY, United States

The New International Theatre Experience (NITE) presents a program of talks, readings, and presentations to celebrate World Theatre Day 2015 livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 27 March.