Year of the Typewriter

Year of the Typewriter responds to a challenge by ecology writer Paul Kingsnorth to cast landscape as the lead character in stories. The response of playwright Kendra Fanconi to this challenge was to rig up an old typewriter as a backpack and go out into wild places...

tinkers

tinkers is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Paul Harding. This new transcendentalist work features an intimate and dazzling relationship with the natural world, woven into a story of family karma.  Through an intergenerational story we meet a young...

How to Build a Bird Nest

Get set for an interspecies collaboration that can happen in your own back yard. Inspired by text from Tinkers novelist, Paul Harding, as adapted by playwright, Kendra Fanconi, and created by animation artist, Cindy Mochizuki, and sound artist, Nancy Tam. Watch at...

Treasure Trail

Discover what is hidden in the big green. The Only Animal’s artists create hidden artistic treasure troves on ecological themes. This is geocaching as you’ve never seen it before. Wear sensible shoes and weather-appropriate clothing. Treasure Trail is a...

The City and The City

What does it mean to “unsee” another person, an incident…an entire city? Adapted from author China Miéville’s multi-award-winning novel, The City and The City is a highly participatory theatrical experience; equal parts dystopic science fiction, film noir, and murder...