Performance and ecology what can theatre do?
Contributor(s): Lavery, Carl [editor.]
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BookPublisher: UK ; Routledge , 2018Description: xiii, 118 pages illustrations 26 cm.ISBN: 9781138554719; 1138554715.Subject(s): Performing arts -- Environmental aspects | Ecology | Environmentalism in mass media | Theater and society | Ecocriticism | Performing arts -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 333.7 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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.
Introduction: Performance and ecology - what can theatre do? / Carl Lavery -- 1. On creating a climate of attention: the composition of our work / Karen Christopher and Sophie Grodin -- 2. The performance 'apparatus': performance and its documentation as ecological practice / Minty Donald -- 3. Projecting climate scenarios, landscaping nature, and knowing performance: on becoming performed by ecology / Baz Kershaw -- 4. Theatre, conflict and nature / Wallace Heim -- 5. Theatre and time ecology: deceleration in Stifters Dinge and L'Effet de Serge / Carl Lavery -- 6. Confounding ecospectations: disaapointment and hope in the forest / Deirdre Heddon.
"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.
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