1st Edition

Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?

Edited By Carl Lavery Copyright 2018
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Performance and Ecology – what can Theatre do? Carl Lavery

Chapter 1: On Creating a Climate of Attention: The Composition of Our Work Karen Christopher and Sophie Grodin

Chapter 2: The Performance ‘Apparatus’: Performance and its Documentation as Ecological Practice Minty Donald

Chapter 3: Projecting Climate Scenarios, Landscaping Nature, and Knowing Performance: On Becoming Performed by Ecology. Baz Kershaw.

Chapter 4: Theatre, Conflict, Nature Wallace Heim

Chapter 5: Theatre and Time Ecology: Deceleration in Stifters Dinge and L’Effet de Serge Carl Lavery

Chapter 6: Confounding Ecospectations: Disappointment and Hope in the Forest Dee Heddon

Biography

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.