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
Biography
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.
