The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter?

ISBN-13: 9781032090566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

Julie Hudson

Opis

The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter? investigates a pertinent voice of theatrical performance within the production and reception of ecotheatre. This volume applies an ecoaware spectatorial lens to explore live theatre as a living ecosystem in a literal sense.

Spis treści

Introduction: Setting the Ecotheatrical Scene

Chapter One: The Environment on Stage in Production and Reception

Chapter Two: Natural Disasters as Ecotheatrical Shapeshifters

Chapter Three: An Ecotheatrical Perspective on Dearth in Performance

Chapter Four: The Environment in Performance – Stage Invasion or Deus ex Machina?

Chapter Five: Environmental Theatre, Site Specificity and Theatre Ecologies

Chapter Six: Frugal Modes of Story-telling as Ecotheatre

Chapter Seven: Bicycles on Stage – Shapeshifters or Scenery?

Chapter Eight: Reperforming Reception – The Skriker in 1994 and 2015

Chapter Nine: On the Importance of Intrinsic Environmental Responsibility

O autorze

Julie Hudson is an independent writer in the field of ecocriticism.　 She was awarded her PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies (Warwick University) in 2018.　 Her main research interests include the environment and cultural change, ecotheatre, live theatrical events and audience research. 　Previous publications include: ‘Are We Performing Dearth, or is Dearth Performing Us, in Modern Productions of William Shakespeare’s "Coriolanus"’, in A Cultural History of Famine: Food Security and the Environment in Britain and India, ed. by Ayesha Mukherjee (Routledge, 2018, forthcoming); Food Policy and the Environmental Credit Crunch: From Soup to Nuts (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014), and From Red to Green: How the Environmental Could Bankrupt The Environment (Abingdon: Earthscan, 2011), both co-authored with economist Paul Donovan.