Dramatizing Deepwater Horizon

Recent controversies surrounding large-scale oil pipeline projects, such as the Dakota Access or the Keystone XL, underline an ever-present tension: Society9s overwhelming de­pendence on oil results in unacceptable risks to environmental and human health on the one hand while promising fabulous profits and "oil independence" on the other. SPILL , a new production written and pro­duced in a partnership between the Ensem­ble Studio Theater and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project, offers a powerful reminder that neither the debates nor the profoundly uncertain risks at their center are new.