Illustrated by moving images of the interconnected worlds of milkweed plants and monarch butterflies, playwright Wendy Dann will introduce a reading of an extract from her new play, Milkweed, and discuss the natural species and migratory metaphors at the heart of her drama. Connecting social and natural worlds, Dann draws on the particular symbiosis between the migratory patterns of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plants they rely on for their survival – a potent metaphor for the multi-generational relationships and ecosystems critical to the sustenance and development of we humans, too.
Program includes PBS Nature short, Westward Wings (Joe Pontecorvo, USA, 2022, 11 mins), on the migratory dynamic between milkweeds and monarchs.
Cinemapolis: Sunday April 12, 4:30pm – Ithaca-based playwright Wendy Dann will join us in person for Q&A, with dramatic reading by Paula Murray Cole (FREE EVENT)
Milkweed: Playwright Wendy Dann on the Drama of the Natural World
a milkweed as depicted by archival educational short, Seed Dispersal (1971)
a milkweed as depicted by archival educational short, Seed Dispersal (1971)