Environmental Dramas featured in “EcoTheater for the Global Village”
Three plays that confront environmental issues from an adult as well as a child’s perspective are featured in “EcoTheater for the Global Village,” recently published by Xlibris, a strategic partner of Random House.
Featured are G. Thomson Fraser’s, “Giants in the Wilderness,” and two children’s theater dramas, MacKenzie Louise Coffman’s, “Forest Hideout,” and Rebekah Lovat Fraser’s “The Tree and the Village.”
In the Preface to EcoTheater for the Global Village,” G. Thomson Fraser observes, “We humans have taken center stage in a worldwide drama to preserve the planet that only the gods of antiquity might find amusing… Theater is now challenged to take up environmental global concerns, to serve as a tool for our continued survival.”
Harold Wood, education chairman for the environmentally-focused Sierra Club, was the inspiration behind the book. He contacted G. Thomson Fraser about her play, “Giants in the Wilderness” and suggested that it be published, along with children’s dramas with an environmental theme.
