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If you've been subscribed to this newsletter for a while, you'll know that Theatre Green Book has been changing, becoming an independent company and a registered charity. Now, to guide our next chapter, there's a great opportunity for someone - maybe you? - to join Theatre Green Book as its new Director.

Full details below, plus a webinar on making Christmas shows green, Edinburgh highlights and the new ReStage Script, a 10-year roadmap to zero waste in our industry.

Theatre Green Book is free to use but it's not free to run. For details of our suggested donations for theatres and other organisations using Theatre Green Book, and to find out how you can support our work as an individual, go to theatregreenbook.com/support.

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Could you be the new Director of Theatre Green Book?

Theatre Green Book has been described as "Nothing less than a green revolution in theatre, driven by the theatres themselves."

We're now looking for an inspirational and ambitious leader to build on the Theatre Green Book’s success to date and extend its role as a primary force for sustainability in theatre and the performing arts. You'd be responsible both for Theatre Green Book in the UK, and for the global network that unites independent Theatre Green Book licensees and partners across the world.

The Director will lead a small professional team as well as a wide network of volunteers and stakeholders, and report to our newly established Board of Trustees. Their work is supported and guided by UK and International Advisory Councils and committees of specialists covering the different areas of Theatre Green Book activity. The position is offered as a two-year, full time appointment with a salary of £62,500. The deadline for applications is Tue 1 September.

If you know the theatre and arts sector and have the skills to run a start-up charity, this could be your opportunity to make a big contribution to the future of the industry.

Full details of the opportunity and how to apply are available here in PDF and audio versions.

Download the Theatre Green Book Director Recruitment Pack­

Oh yes you can (make your pantomime more sustainable)!

We theatre folk love to spend the summer months planning a Christmas show. They are often a venue's biggest show of the year, with audience expectations of large-scale, high production values, glitter, merchandise, and a never-ending stream of costume changes.

However, pantomimes and Christmas shows also hold a lot of potential for a theatre teams and freelance collaborators to think sustainably. As we circulate a fairly small number of titles, there can be lots of opportunity for set and costume re-use, for example.

Christmas time is a time for goodwill: to share good news stories on sustainability with your audience, and get performing companies involved in thinking about a greener, more positive future.

So if you're dreaming of a Green Christmas this summer, join us on

Tue 23 July 2-3pm for a free webinar.

Guest speakers will share inspiring sustainable panto case studies and we'll being you more tips and tricks from venues who have made their Christmas season greener.

Register for the free webinar­

News and events

Headed to Edinburgh next month? We've compiled a non-exhaustive list of 17 climate-themed shows and events you can see as part of Edinburgh Fringe Festival. If you know of any others that might be of interest to this community, let us know: admin@theatregreenbook.com.

We'll also be taking part in some talks and events as part of the Fringe Central programme: a knowledge sharing roundtable on sustainable practice and the Edinburgh Fringe (Wed 19 August 10.30am) and Climate Café: What Role Can Artists Play in a Changing World? (Sat 22 August 10.30am).

ReStage has published The ReStage Script. The culmination of 2.5 years research, the publication sets a course for a 10-year journey to reach zero waste use for stage and screen industries across the UK. The Script will guide the work of ReStage and its partners over that period, and invites others working in the industry to join a coalition to achieve its aims.

Submissions are now open for the Shakepeare's Globe, Climate Spring and Fern Culture Climate Playwriting Prize. The deadline for submissions is Tue 1 September, with the winning commission announced by the end of the year.

Coming up…

On Fri 17 July 1-2pm our monthly series of Buildings Webinars continues with a focus on biodiversity. The series continues with a look at materials for buildings and interiors on Fri 14 August 1-2pm, and buildings structure case studies on Tue 15 September 1-2pm (note change of date). You can register for all upcoming webinars, and watch recordings of earlier sessions here.

ShyBairn presents This is What Utopia Looks Like at Cody Dock, East London on Sat 18 and Sun 19 July (performances throughout the day). This performance installation invites performer and audience to imagine a liveable future, injecting hope and positivity to our response to the climate crisis.

Tying in with the Climate Playwriting Prize (see above), Traverse Theatre is hosting a session on Climate Storytelling for Theatre during this years Edinburgh Festival, on Tue 25 August at 10.30am.

Theatre Green Book holds regular, free introductory webinars that help you get started using Theatre Green Book and its key tools. The next

Production Calculator webinar is Wed 29 July 1-2pm and the next

Theatre Green Book Introduction webinar is Wed 19 August 12-1pm.

For any past events you may have missed you can see our archive here.

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Stories and inspiration

Researchers from the University of Manchester have completed an independent evaluation of Liverpool's year as the first UN Accelerator City for Climate Change and have produced a report entitled "How Cities can Decarbonise Culture".

A new case study from An Tobar and Mull Theatre in the Inner Hebrides on its production of Night Waking, which achieved Theatre Green Book Advanced Level for its tour to 18 Scottish venues in 2025.

ICYMI: Arifa Akbar writes in The Guardian about "a newly blooming genre of musicals about the environmental crisis."

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Thank you

Thank you for being part of the Theatre Green Book community. If you have events, stories or questions you'd like to share via this newsletter, do get in touch: admin@theatregreenbook.com

The Theatre Green Book team

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