All the world is indeed a stage and the grownups merely players at the upcoming ninth annual Big Green Theater (BGT) Festival, which will run from April 25 to 28 at the Bushwick Starr. The festival will showcase several short plays centered around environmental themes written by elementary school students from Bushwick’s PS75 and PS239.

At the festival, members of the public and the students themselves will be able to see their work performed by professional actors, directors, technicians, designers and musicians from the Bushwick Starr and eco-theater company Superhero Clubhouse. From the subject matter to the playwrights to the production techniques, this is theater unlike anything else in New York.

BGT is a rapidly-expanding afterschool program that has evolved over the past nine years since Superhero Clubhouse Director Jeremy Pickard and Bushwick Starr co-founders Noel Allain and Sue Kessler met. The program is impressively holistic, starting with an educational unit where students learn about environmental issues from teachers, scientists and even park rangers—this year they took a field trip to the Salt Marsh Nature Center, an experience that will be featured in the plays.