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One of the initiative's goals is to advance the rights of poor communities who live in the forests, and in this regard, Brazil's progress in community and indigenous rights is noteworthy, said [Jeffrey Hatcher], the director of global programs at RRI. Brazil is probably the most advanced, besides some countries like China or Sweden. In Brazil there has been a major innovation in the Constitution of 1988 and since then, the creation of indigenous territories on a large scale. There are not many places in the world that have such large areas of forest under indigenous ownership. Most of the deforestation in the world occurs in Brazil, the DRC and Indonesia. But over the past few years, deforestation has gone down dramatically in Brazil.

Jan. 29--Scotland Road is performed in one act and lasts only 85 minutes, and those are the two best things I can say about it. The prolific playwright Jeffrey Hatcher would have done well to toss it before showing it to anyone in 1993, after he wrote it. But it somehow made its way to Ambler, where Act II Playhouse is trying, and failing, to make sense of it. If Hatcher's play -- which unfolds on Melissa Guyer's suitably cloying, gray set, to the background of Matthew Aaron's unsuitably foreboding music -- is an allegory for something, he hasn't dropped a clue. If it's an examination of who's authentic and who's not -- the only theme that makes even a passing appearance in Scotland Road -- it's a muddled one; how can you examine authenticity in a play that is itself a fraud? Wait a minute... maybe that's the point. Written by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Stephen Blumenthal, set by Melissa Guyer, costumes by Jessica Risser-Milne, lighting by James Leitner, sound by Matthew Aaron. Presented by Act II Playhouse.

Babbage examines Henry James' \"The Turn of the Screw\" (1898). He explores the theatricality of the novel by considering the presence of performance as a metaphor within the story and the ways James' fascination with contemporary theater pervades the work. He also discusses the altering of reception when the tale comes equipped with \"visuals,\" which is the situation with \"The Turn of the Screw\" in the form of theatrical adaptation. Babbage touches on William Archibald's 1950 theatrical version of the novel, called \"The Innocents,\" and he also discusses Jeffrey Hatcher's 1996 Portland Stage Company production of \"The Turn of the Screw.\"

This weekend: Illusion Theater's Fresh Ink series continues with this one-man presentation of \"Hamlet.\" Playwright [JEFFREY HATCHER] adapted the play when he was 10 years old.

\"Mrs. Mannerly\" is inspired by the hilarious memories of a childhood etiquette class. Playwright [Jeffrey Hatcher] conjures up the world of a 10-year-old studying manners. Mrs. Mannerly is a demanding teacher, and no student in her 36 years of etiquette classes has achieved a perfect score. But when he discovers her secret past, Young Jeffrey is determined to be the first to achieve this feat. This unique comic tale reveals truths about the face we present and the real selves that lie inside.