Theatre strike for climate : lending a voice to nature in tribunal theatre

In this article, I analyse the ways in which Maria Lucia Cruz Correia, Rebekka de Wit and Anoek Nuyens rethink the relationship between performance and ecopolitics. With their tribunal theatre performances Voice of Nature: The Trial (2019) and The Shell Trial (2020), the artists strive to reconfigure the dramaturgy of the courtroom on stage and aim at urging the spectator to imagine new futures beyond eco-colonialism. In focusing on their performance practice and methods, I discuss the ways they combine common legal procedures with alternative forms of jurisprudence, such as pre-enactment, restorative justice and embodied knowledge.

Publication year:2021

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