We here at Theatre of the 7 Directions are offering two Ecotheatre courses this Autumn in The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn (a several minute drive from Forres). These group ecotheatre journeys will be facilitated by director Laura Pasetti. Through various creative exercises, participants in the two upcoming courses will be led from initial …
Björk and IcelandIceland is a nation whose general relationship with nature varies from other north European nations. The career of arguably their most famous musician is an expression of this. Björk Guðmundsdóttir (b. 1965) is our eco-artist of the month for September. Björk grew up on a remote island nation of 372,000 people. On that island, …
Dandelions are everywhere. They’re in fields, gardens, dumps, and at the side of pavements (called ‘dog pisses’ in some places for this reason). They pop up in the most established vegetation, or in newly disturbed soil – often first to grow even after wildfires (making them a pioneer species). They’re amongst the earliest bloomers in …
Dandelion Diamonds – ‘Are You Happy?’ Ecoreflections #2 Read More »
‘Rats with wings’ – a common speciesist phrase insulting pigeon-kind. Poor rats weren’t in our March 2023 ecotheatre play ‘Are You Happy?’, but pigeons were, so I’m here to come to their defence. These beautiful birds surround us every day in our cities, towns, villages and countryside. Perhaps it’s because they’re so prolific that they’re …
Pigeon People – ‘Are You Happy?’ Ecoreflections #1 Read More »
4pm Sunday 6th August 2023 After devising a show together for 10 days, our 2023 Summer Campers perform their final show in Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn in the North East of Scotland. They have been guided by T7D Director Laura Pasetti. Entry is by donation, with all proceeds going to bursaries for subsidised …
An eco-theatre play performed at the Findhorn Foundation’s Cluny Hill Campus in Forres, Scotland, March 2023. Directed and written by Laura Pasetti, based on the devising of the cast themselves. Prompted by Snail who realises that humans are losing their shimmering trail, putting all of Earth under threat, four other-than-human guides (Spider, Water, Dandelion and …
Directed and produced by Laura Pasetti and performed in The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn on Saturday 13th April 2019. 9 theatre Questers embarked on a journey of human discovery through individual and collective work during the 5-weekend course ‘Sacred Stage Module’. The course aimed to increase the collective consciousness through deep work on the fragmented self, …
The Red Ball is the story of a community facing unexpected changes. It addresses the many challenges, the highs and the lows, the struggles and conflicts, the relational element to the inner and the outer that every community, all over the world, is facing. With their identity under threat will they manage to find their …
by Laura Pasetti Since I started my career as an actress I felt that theatre for me was much more than a job or a profession; 30 years ago I had to choose to do Foundation Year Programme (at the time, the so called two-year programme to become a member of Findhorn Foundation or pursue …
Why I decided to do a MA in Engaged Ecology at 53 years of age? Read More »
by Laura Pasetti & Mirel Stambuk Laura Pasetti has been working in the theatrical field for 33 years and she recently completed a one-year training in nature-based practices with the intention of focusing on developing a new – although very ancient – form of theatre which she calls Ecotheatre. Her explorations in this area …
