CARTOON INSPIRES OCTOPI WALL STREET

Playwright Karen Casady spotted the original cartoon that inspired the play Octopi Wall Street in an article by Donna Haraway (“Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene”, E-Flux Journal #75, September 2016) that raised the issue of the affects of climate change on other non-human species. The cartoon’s design and artwork was created in 2011 by graduate students Marley Jarvis, Laurel Hiebert and Kira Treibergs and appeared on t-shirts and totebags with proceeds benefiting the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology and the Charleston Marine Life Center. We are using the art with their permission and thank them very much! It appears abundantly on our promotional materials.

Octopi Wall Street addresses the subject of climate change through a series of vignettes told from the perspective of both human and non-human entities (think drunk birds, drag queen barley, algae and a glacier). The play is based on extensive research of main stream media articles dealing with off-beat aspects of global warming and climate change. The opening monologue of the play recently won a nationally recognized award at the Region 8 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival as its 2019 Monologue Selection.