This year brings the return of both of The Tank’s eco-forward festivals: Trash Fest and Dark Fest! For years, The Tank has hosted DarkFest - a week of shows that does not use conventional theatrical lighting in an effort to reexamine how we can make theater more sustainable. With the pandemic forcing our physical theater to close, we challenged that idea further with TrashFest. It is often difficult to wrestle with the environmental impact our daily lives and our work can have - especially in theater, where so many resources are needed to develop sets, props, and costumes that are only used for a short amount of time. Trash Fest centers work that not only produces no waste, but reuses materials discarded as garbage while Dark Fest celebrates innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources.
