The Half-Written Play: A Theatrical Exploration of Community Decision Making

Name: The Half-Written Play: A Theatrical Exploration of Community Decision Making
Start: 2026-06-07T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-07T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 14 Hancock St, Portsmouth, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03801

Schedule

Sun Jun 07 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

14 Hancock St, Portsmouth, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03801 | Portsmouth, NH

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟-𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲: 𝐀 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞
Sunday, June 7, 2026, 2-4 PM
in the lecture hall in the Lawrence J. Yerdon Visitors Center
Experience a unique, interactive performance that puts you at the center of the story. Created by the University of New Hampshire’s PowerPLAY, this program explores how communities navigate difficult decisions around climate change at the local level.
The play follows a group of citizens grappling with a divisive policy issue related to flooding. At a critical moment, the performance pauses, and the audience steps in to help shape what happens next. Your ideas guide the outcome, turning theatre into a shared problem-solving experience.
This performance is associated with the New Frontiers in Research Fund which supports interdisciplinary international transformative programming. The Half-Written Play joins a team of projects being presented in Canada, the UK and Germany that are studying ways to use inter-active theatre and forms of design thinking to work toward communication and collaboration and to improve community decision-making related to climate change and sustainability challenges.
Members $5; Nonmembers $10.