Playwright Al Smith discusses his continent-hopping new work about the climate crisis, inspired by rusting locomotives and the Lithium Triangle in the Andes There was a worry that when theatres reopened after months of pandemic-enforced closure, programming might be risk averse, with ambitions constrained by strapped finances. Al Smith's Rare Earth Mettle is not a constrained play. It is a multi-stranded, multi-chara…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM on November 2, 2021