Green Theatre (Environmental Theatre) in Urban and Rural Environments as an Instrument of Sustainable Development*

Environmental and identity issues are among the most prominent problems of the 21 century. Some of the environmental problems are global warming, excessive consumption of plastic, lack of observance of green architecture principles in the construction of buildings, inappropriate trash disposal, desertification, deforestation, pollution of freshwater, etc. Moreover Humans suffer from issues much deeper than exploitation, namely not belonging to a collective identity; by way of example, forgetting the neighborhood identity, no heed to the peace culture and cultivating environmental intelligence. In this research, an attempt has been made to eventually achieve practical solutions by providing executive methods of green theatre in urban and rural spaces. This study might hopefully help raise citizens’ awareness of environmental facts in various ecosystems that are investigated in Green Theatre. Green Theatre in urban space (in theatre buildings) and in rural space (through indigenous rituals) places particular emphasis on a deeper understanding of local and indigenous identity. This research is aimed at improving citizens’ awareness of the neighborhood identity, living ethics, environmental intelligence, thinking of greenness in various ecosystems through practices and concepts of green theatre and applied theatre. Green theatre is performed with the aim of reforming ecological approaches, improving environmental intelligence, bioethics and a culture of peace in public societies (citizens and officials) in order to take decisive, firm and lasting steps towards a culture of peace, human, rural and sustainable development.