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Writing Back to Climate Crisis: An Eco-Storytelling Workshop

Join playwright and researcher Oliver Gough in a practice-led workshop on writing the era of climate crisis in all its messy, intense, ironic and darkly funny chaos. Learn to write about climate-ravaged futures through the lens of absurdism and comedy, responding deeply to the non-human world, and drawing on personal experience as a way to speak back to the climate era. 


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Tuesday 15 September, 10am-11am AEST

Pay-What-You-Wish/Free

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Oliver Gough

Oliver Gough is an emerging playwright, PhD Candidate and university tutor based in Magandjin/Brisbane and at the University of Queensland, researching climate change theatre. Oliver’s plays have been produced by Observatory Theatre, Underground Theatre Company, Anywhere Festival and La Boite Theatre through its ‘Assembly’ program. Other writing has appeared in Australasian Drama Studies, ABC Religion and Ethics, ‘Science Write Now’, ‘Jacaranda’ and through ‘Yeah Nah Theatre’. Oliver is currently under commission by Playlab Theatre for a new co-written play, Theft, and has spoken at national and international conferences on absurdist theatre and ecology.