Milkweed: Playwright Wendy Dann on the Drama of the Natural World

Name: Milkweed: Playwright Wendy Dann on the Drama of the Natural World
Released: 2026-04-12
Duration: 1 h 15 min

**Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Screening — Sun. April 12, 3:30 PM — FREE event with post-reading Q&A from Ithaca-based playwright Wendy Dann!** Illustrated by moving images of the interconnected worlds of milkweed plants and monarch butterflies, playwright Wendy Dann will introduce a reading of an extract from her new play, Milkweed, and discuss the natural species and migratory metaphors at the heart of her drama. Connecting social and natural worlds, Dann draws on the particular symbiosis between the migratory patterns of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plants they rely on for their survival – a potent metaphor for the relationships and ecosystems critical to the sustenance and development of we humans, too.PT1H15M2026-04-12

Wendy Dann

Milkweed: Playwright Wendy Dann on the Drama of the Natural World"Milkweed: Playwright Wendy Dann on the Drama of the Natural World"

Showtimes

April 12, 3:30 pm