Too Late for Opportunity?

On Monday, November 10, Pat Munday and a team of his students from his “Politics of Technical Decisions” class at Montana Tech, put A short, two-act play about the Arco-British Petroleum toxic waste repository near the town of Opportunity, Montana. Students played the Anaconda Company, ARCO-BP, the Environmental Protection Agency, Milltown, and Opportunity. Modeled on Augusto Boal’s “Theatre of the Oppressed,” each act was performed several times. After two repetitions of the second act, audience members where invited to participate by taking the place of an actor and redefining that actor’s role. Performances of the second act continued so audience members could all participate. They showed how the contaminated soil ended up in Milltown and how the EPA did nothing to stop the soils from being hauled to Opportunity.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved, it was truly fantastic. Great job folks...