Performance and ecology what can theatre do?
- UK ; Routledge , 2018 .
- xiii, 118 pages illustrations 26 cm
This book was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, volume 20, issue 3 (November 2016).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Performance and ecology - what can theatre do? / On creating a climate of attention: the composition of our work / The performance 'apparatus': performance and its documentation as ecological practice / Projecting climate scenarios, landscaping nature, and knowing performance: on becoming performed by ecology / Theatre, conflict and nature / Theatre and time ecology: deceleration in Stifters Dinge and L'Effet de Serge / Confounding ecospectations: disaapointment and hope in the forest / Carl Lavery -- Karen Christopher and Sophie Grodin -- Minty Donald -- Baz Kershaw -- Wallace Heim -- Carl Lavery -- Deirdre Heddon. Introduction: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"In comparison with Literary Studies and Media and Film Studies, the disciplines of Theatre and Performance, with their strong anthropocentric heritage, have been relatively slow in responding to such things as climate change, species extinction, or pollution and toxicity etc. However, in the wake of recent work on animals, cyborgs, and objects, as well as publications with a specific focus on ecology and environment, there are real signs that theatre and performance scholars are beginning to make their own contribution to the Environmental Humanities. But if theatre critics are engaged in new forms of ecocritical analysis, it is worth posing a pertinent question from the outset: namely, what can theatre do ecologically? In this book, leading researchers and practitioners seek to answer that question from a number of perspectives and with diverse methodologies. Topics include: reflections on rehearsal processes, scores for performance, site-based interventions, ideas of conflict, investigations of temporality and time ecology, ecospectating, and the experience of disappointment."--Provided by publisher.
9781138554719 1138554715
Performing arts--Environmental aspects.
Ecology.
Environmentalism in mass media.
Theater and society.
Ecocriticism.
Performing arts--Philosophy.
PN1650.E26 / P47 2018 PN1631 / .P47 2018
333.7
This book was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, volume 20, issue 3 (November 2016).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Performance and ecology - what can theatre do? / On creating a climate of attention: the composition of our work / The performance 'apparatus': performance and its documentation as ecological practice / Projecting climate scenarios, landscaping nature, and knowing performance: on becoming performed by ecology / Theatre, conflict and nature / Theatre and time ecology: deceleration in Stifters Dinge and L'Effet de Serge / Confounding ecospectations: disaapointment and hope in the forest / Carl Lavery -- Karen Christopher and Sophie Grodin -- Minty Donald -- Baz Kershaw -- Wallace Heim -- Carl Lavery -- Deirdre Heddon. Introduction: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"In comparison with Literary Studies and Media and Film Studies, the disciplines of Theatre and Performance, with their strong anthropocentric heritage, have been relatively slow in responding to such things as climate change, species extinction, or pollution and toxicity etc. However, in the wake of recent work on animals, cyborgs, and objects, as well as publications with a specific focus on ecology and environment, there are real signs that theatre and performance scholars are beginning to make their own contribution to the Environmental Humanities. But if theatre critics are engaged in new forms of ecocritical analysis, it is worth posing a pertinent question from the outset: namely, what can theatre do ecologically? In this book, leading researchers and practitioners seek to answer that question from a number of perspectives and with diverse methodologies. Topics include: reflections on rehearsal processes, scores for performance, site-based interventions, ideas of conflict, investigations of temporality and time ecology, ecospectating, and the experience of disappointment."--Provided by publisher.
9781138554719 1138554715
Performing arts--Environmental aspects.
Ecology.
Environmentalism in mass media.
Theater and society.
Ecocriticism.
Performing arts--Philosophy.
PN1650.E26 / P47 2018 PN1631 / .P47 2018
333.7