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Paul Handley - Sustainable Theatre Making
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The National Theatre is committed to achieving net zero carbon by 2030, the greatest creative challenge it has ever undertaken. This time we are talking to Paul Handley, Production and Technical Director at the NT about his search for a more sustainable model of theatre making. We hear about the many and varied ways that staff are trying to limit their environmental impact while still delivering world class theatre. We discuss why it is so important to reflect our values not only in the work we make onstage, but in the way we make it. We also reflect upon the need to get away from the language of dreary limitation, how it is the artists who are actually the people who can lead the way forward and while we should be ready to fail, in the words of Samual Beckett, we must ‘try again, fail again, fail better’. We also learn that there’s nothing that can’t be solved with a pencil, a piece of paper…and a fresh white t-shirt. This episode was recorded at the end of 2022
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