“The Making of Things We Will Miss: Meditations on the Climate Crisis,” an essay by Assistant Professor of Theatre Emily K. Harrison, was recently published on HowlRound Theatre Commons, “a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners.”
In her essay, Harrison discusses her work, focusing on Things We Will Miss, which she describes as “a collage-style devised work exploring the (potential) collapse of the Anthropocene [that] explores the beauty and inevitability of impermanence.
“Born from the debris of late-stage capitalism and rooted in an intergenerational examination of the bonds between a teacher and her students, [Things We Will Miss] features actors playing multiple characters including an amateur astronomer, a park ranger, mythological prophet Cassandra, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and, ultimately, themselves,” she said.
“Driven by image, light, and sound, as well as the ways experience is communicated through the body, Things We Will Miss viscerally explores the grief and beauty, the horror and hope inherent in being alive in this very moment,” Harrison explained.
Things We Will Miss was produced by square product theatre, the Boulder, Colorado-based theatre company for which Harrison serves as producing artistic director, and premiered at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Posted April 8, 2026
