“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it” – Augusto Boal For Edy, Dar, Fen, and Gully in part 2 of This Sinking Island, it is perhaps already too late to build a future; their predecessors waited too long to address climate change. In reality, we are their predecessors and still have the ability to take action against climate change. However, it’s hard to g

We are proud that our creative process for This Sinking Island embodied the values of being low-impact with a small carbon footprint. At every step of the way, we challenged ourselves to create the visual world of the show from as many reused and repurposed materials as possible. Out of limitations often come incredible ingenuity and no one displayed that better than our Visual Designer, Irina Kuraeva. As Irina notes, "I didn’t have any artistic limitations; every form, color

For me, art is a form of activism. I’m of the camp that believes that all art is political- it’s all just a matter of how political you want to make it. And ever since the beginning, The Anthropologists has been a pro-social theater company. Heck the first play we did (before we were even a theater company) was about how Christopher Columbus was not the hero we think he was! And this was back in 2007 when there was no conversation about Indigenous People’s Day! The Anthropolo