From Mother Nature Network's John Platt: Families. Fishermen. Town officials. Cleanup workers. These are just a few of the people and communities devastated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. Their stories will be dramatized next year in a new play called "Spill," written by Leigh Fondakowski in collaboration with visual artist Reeva Wortel. The production aims to answer the question, "What is the true human and environmental cost of oil?""Spill"— like Fondakowski's earlier play and HBO movie, "The Laramie Project"— is based on interviews with dozens of people living in and around the area affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The words of 30 real-life people will be...
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