The Dolphins
Are Still Singing.
Can you hear them?

Written and performed by internationally exhibited artist, visionary, and environmental advocate Jill Karlin Butler and directed by Kleber Soares, The Dolphins Are Still Singing. Can You Hear Them? Lee, Me and the Tree makes its world premiere at The Space UK, Surgeons Hall Theatre 3, August 25–29, 2026.

Part autobiographical storytelling, part mystical memoir, part environmental call-to-consciousness, this 45-minute solo stage performance journeys through an extraordinary true love story between Karlin and her late husband, visionary environmental architect Lee Porter Butler — known by many as “The Father of Environmental Architecture.”

Blending poetic storytelling, humor, spiritual reflection, environmental activism, and mythic imagery, the performance follows the couple’s shared mission to awaken humanity to a more harmonious way of living with the Earth through EKOTECTURE and The Dolphin Dream — a vision of self-sustaining, environmentally conscious communities designed to restore balance between humanity and nature.

Set against the living presence of dolphins, trees, oceans, and unseen spiritual forces, The Dolphins Are Still Singing explores love, grief, devotion, and the enduring belief that humanity can still choose another path.

Karlin’s deeply personal performance invites audiences into a world where art, ecology, mysticism, romance, and activism converge. The show is both intimate and expansive — a meditation on partnership, planetary healing, and the unseen currents that guide human destiny.

“This is not only a love story between two people. It is a love story for the Earth itself.”

— Jill Karlin Butler

Premiering at the Fringe with aspirations toward future stage, film, and episodic adaptations, The Dolphins Are Still Singing offers audiences a rare theatrical experience: visionary storytelling rooted in lived experience, environmental consciousness, and spiritual imagination.