St Anne’s theatrical works have opened academic knowledge on climate change to a wider audience, while influencing people to make positive changes and take action.

Why is it that the majority of people who believe the scientific information on climate change, choose to ignore or downplay the looming effects, and ultimately fail to make basic changes in their day to day lives?  Environmental sociologist Kari Norgaard from the University of Oregon has attempted to understand these questions in her research […]

In an attempt to understand the physical aspects of death, St Anne draws on the expertise of Dr. Glenn Shea.

Professor Danielle Celermajer reflects on Black Crows Invaded Our Country, an unsettling and poetic performance that collapses the boundaries between environmental crisis, migration, and human vulnerability. Drawing on personal experience, literary fragments, and critical theory, she explores how art can fuse structural understanding with emotional truth to awaken action. Professor Danielle Celermajer Sydney has been […]

This three-part series explores the research and ideas that inspired Black Crows Invaded Our Country, a collaboration between The Living Room Theatre, the Sydney Environment Institute, and the City of Sydney.In the final instalment of our Black Crows “Behind the Curtain” series, interdisciplinary artist and architect Ainslie Murray discusses her installation Humane Hostilities, a striking […]

This three-part series explores the research and ideas that inspired Black Crows Invaded Our Country, a collaboration between The Living Room Theatre, the Sydney Environment Institute, and the City of Sydney. In Part 2 of our series, Black Crows creator Michelle St Anne discusses how environmental philosopher Thom van Dooren’s research on house crows became […]

This three-part series explores the research and ideas that inspired Black Crows Invaded Our Country, a collaboration between The Living Room Theatre, the Sydney Environment Institute, and the City of Sydney. In Part 1, environmental philosopher Thom van Dooren shares his work on human–crow relationships and reflects on seeing it reimagined through performance, story, and […]

The idea is to rethink, recontextualise, and rediscover the usual academic lecture.

To detail what happens over the following 80 minutes or so would spoil the experience, which is what this play most enthrallingly is.