Our Place As Nature

Presented by Monday Nights Theater Company (MNTC) and featuring poet Sarah Audsley

Join us for an evening of poetry hosted by poet Amy Beth Sisson and naturalist-garden designer Rose Fairley.

Given the dual existential crises of climate and biodiversity, what can poets and poetry teach us about being human and connecting as members of the natural world? 

Sarah Audsley’s collection Landlock X (Texas Review Press) emerged from the landscape of Vermont as well as her identity as a trans-racial adoptee and both the flora and seasonality of Vermont are threaded throughout the collection.

In addition to Sarah’s oeuvre, actors from MNTC will perform works by poets such as Franny Choi, Louise Glück, Ross Gay, Amy Beth Sisson, Jacqueline Suskin and other poets that interrogate the complex relationship we have as/with “nature” at this moment in our species history. 

OUR PLACE AS NATURE, IN POEMS is both a celebration of the wild in poetry as well as an acknowledgement of the precarious moment we are all living in. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged along with a $10 donation. Half of money donated will go towards the nascent native plant restoration nursery at the North Branch Nature Center and the other half to MNTC's inaugural season!

Monday Nights Theatre Company cross-pollinates cultural workers and audiences from urban and rural communities through  professional theatre, educational events and workshops. With MNTC, Los Angeles and Vermont based performers, writers and venues  find common ground in communities' need for thriving arts, culture and space to gather.  

Performers and audiences in all communities are affected by the current climate of diminished arts funding and rising cost of living. MNTC provides quality performance to life through artist-led, cooperative leadership repertory theatre. 

Monday Nights Theatre Company founding members are Annie Chang (Wild Swans, Young Vic / A.R.T.; 4,000 Miles, Studio Theatre; HBO’s Peacemaker & Interior Chinatown HULU), Emily Day Blackwell (Groundlings’ Sunday Company; Just For Laughs New Faces Characters), Rose Fairley (Pride & Prejudice Bristol Riverside Theatre; NYU Tisch, RADA alum), Kristina Mueller (Grasses Of A Thousand Colors, The Public Theatre; Madam Secretary) & P.K. Simone (Countdown; The Red Rob Roy Show). 

MNTC has partnered with Catamount Arts through their presenting partners program to offer tickets to Romeo and Juliet and Gruesome Playground Injuries July 23-August 2, 2026. 

Support Monday Nights Theatre Company by purchasing tickets to our upcoming productions of Gruesome Playground Injuries and Romeo and Juliet playing July 23rd - August 2nd at the Grange Hall in Waterbury Center, Vermont. More info at https://mondaynightstheatre.com/