Fracking: the Melodrama

Website

http://www.omnicenter.org/climate-change-task-force/

The Idea

Creative OMNI350 members will put on a classic melodrama featuring the evils of fracking... the gas-drilling horror now sweeping Arkansas. It will be performed multiple times in readers theatre fashion with youth and adults in a variety of settings, and finally produced as a community event with splash and hoopla. The Melodrama is titled "Grassy Graves of Garden Grove", and a synopsis is posted at the website above. The play is charming, tear-jerking in a funny kind of way, and we know audiences will be entranced, especially since this is an alarming issue Arkansas is just now beginning to wake up to. Funds will be used to purchase simple props and costumes, transport the director and actors to parts of the state that are uninformed about the issue, and provide printing and publicity.

Fayetteville Arkansas is a progressive university town in the not-so-progressive South. It has a base of informed support for environmental issues where this type of activity can be developed and is close to areas that need to be informed.

We'd prefer to showcase it during Earth Month next April, so should begin production in January.

Humor can penetrate where intellect fears to tread. Light outreach is best.

Is your project a new idea, or was it initiated after November 2011?: This is a new idea

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