Many youth experience distress around the climate crisis. However, mainstream environmental messages ignore youth concerns, blame individuals, and suggest techno-fixes rather than addressing root causes. Young people need a way to productively process and collectively engage with their complex feelings about the climate crisis. During the spring of 2023, a group of university students facilitated a Research-based Theatre project to explore their relationship to climate and environmental justice as part of a biannual performance festival of student new work. Specifically, we used Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to slow down and embody participants’ struggles with environmental action. We argue that this process allowed participants to explore how and why they made sense of mainstream environmental messaging about the climate crisis. This paper offers a case study exploring how the interwoven themes of power, positionality, and agency emerged through embodied investigations during the early development of our Research-based Theatre performance. The paper concludes by discussing how Research-based Theatre can embrace a post-activist lens that supports the complexity of sense-making and troubles the over-emphasis on solution as the only response to environmental/climate crisis. Further, we argue for the kin-making possibilities that crisis can teach us when engaged through embodied exploration.

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分享的绿色时刻：一个戏剧实验室在单一时刻探索气候危机的可能性


许多年轻人因气候危机而感到痛苦。然而，主流环境信息忽视了年轻人的担忧，指责个人，并建议进行技术修复，而不是解决根本原因。年轻人需要一种方法来有效地处理和集体表达他们对气候危机的复杂感受。 2023 年春季，一群大学生发起了一个研究型戏剧项目，探索其与气候和环境正义的关系，作为一年两次的学生新作品表演节的一部分。具体来说，我们使用了被压迫者剧院的技巧来放慢并体现参与者与环境行动的斗争。我们认为，这个过程让参与者能够探索他们如何以及为何理解有关气候危机的主流环境信息。本文提供了一个案例研究，探讨了在我们的研究型戏剧表演的早期发展过程中，权力、地位和机构等相互交织的主题如何通过具体调查而出现。本文最后讨论了基于研究的戏剧如何采用后激进主义视角，支持意义建构的复杂性，并解决过度强调解决方案作为应对环境/气候危机的唯一反应的问题。此外，我们主张危机可以通过具体探索教会我们建立亲缘关系的可能性。