Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?

ISBN-13: 9780367529734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 132 str.

Carl Lavery

Opis

What can theatre do ecologically? This book seeks to answer that question by asking leading researchers and practitioners in the field to respond to this provocation from a number of different perspective and methodologies. It was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Performance and Ecology – what can Theatre do?  Chapter 1: On Creating a Climate of Attention: The Composition of Our Work  Chapter 2: The Performance ‘Apparatus’: Performance and its Documentation as Ecological Practice  Chapter 3: Projecting Climate Scenarios, Landscaping Nature, and Knowing Performance: On Becoming Performed by Ecology  Chapter 4: Theatre, Conflict, Nature  Chapter 5: Theatre and Time Ecology: Deceleration in Stifters Dinge and L’Effet de Serge  Chapter 6: Confounding Ecospectations: Disappointment and Hope in the Forest

O autorze

Carl Lavery is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published numerous articles and books on theatre and ecology, including Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage (2015). His current book project is Interrogating the Human: Ecology, Theatre and Theatricality.