Rachel Carson Speaks in Ridgewood

The Environmental Justice Players present their first professional production, Rachel Carson Speaks, adapted and directed by Frank Farrell, for two performances, Friday and Saturday, April 17 & 18 at 7pm at the Anderson Auditorium, at the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, 113 Cottage Place, Ridgewood, NJ 07450.

Tickets are a suggested donation of $20 and can be purchased at https://cur8.com/41001/project/137733. Tickets are also available at the door.

Rachel Carson Speaks combines famed ecologist Rachel Carson’s 1963 final lecture: The Pollution of Our Environment with scenes from her life and her personal struggles to write her environmental classic, Silent Spring. This is the inaugural production for Ridgewood, New Jersey’s newly formed Environmental Justice Players.

Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose lyrical and scientifically rigorous works, including her Sea Trilogy and the groundbreaking Silent Spring, helped ignite the global environmental movement. Her research on the dangers of synthetic pesticides spurred policy changes, a DDT ban in the U.S., and inspired the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Directed by Frank Farrell the cast features local professional actors Tiffany Browne-Tavarez as Rachel, Bobni Das as her nephew Roger and New Yorker Magazine editor William Shawn, Ann K. Grippo as Rachel’s mother Maria and literary agent Marie Rodell, and Kalliopy Paleos as Rachel’s friend Dorothy Freeman with sound by Ben Masterton and music by the musical duo Magpie.

Frank Farrell the adaptor and director of Rachel Carson Speaks is the artistic director of the First Flight Theatre Company, which has performed productions at the Hermitage in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ since 2018.

“Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.”

― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring