With growing concern for the climate crisis facing our local, national and international communities, Joan Lipkin and That Uppity Theatre Company in collaboration with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment and the Arts & Climate Initiative will present a free one hour program of staged readings of short plays addressing this pivotal issue April 17, 2025.
The first performance will be at noon at the High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103 phone: (314) 533-0367 and the program will be repeated that evening at 7:30 PM at Metro Theatre, in their rehearsal space at 3311 Washington Ave., St. Louis, MO 63103, phone: (314) 932-7414.
This program will feature St. Louis based directors Sami Ginoplos, Bekah Harbison, and Joan Lipkin, and actors Tyson Cole, Kate Durbin, Steve Lewis, Tammy O’Donnell, Mitchell Manar, Don McClendon, Ann Truka, and Jodi Stockton.
For the noon performance, the doors open at 11:30 AM and early arrival is encouraged. Coffee and other beverages may be purchased at the adjacent Blueprint Café. Representatives from the MCE will be available for discussion afterwards.
The evening performance at Metro Theatre will be at 7:30 with the doors opening at 7 PM and MCE will be available then as well.
All of the plays to be presented have either been published by the Arts & Climate Initiative or commissioned by other theatre companies. The playwrights include Nicholas Billon, Chantal Bilodeau, Mindi Dickstein, Marcia Johnson, Joan Lipkin, Stephen Sewell, and Kevin Matthew Wong. Some of the themes include the ethics of having children at this time, the impact of American fossil fuel use on other countries, the role of climate change protests in public settings, the question of climate reparations to other countries, the impact of plastic and waste, animal rights and habitat loss, and more.
