1st Edition
Theatres of Compost Performance and Ecology for the Anthropocene
By Abby Schroering
Copyright 2025
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Theatres of Compost places ecology at the center of performance scholarship and criticism, and it positions performance as a key cultural process for bringing about a more just and sustainable future.
Examining a unique archive of agricultural performances—plays, theatre collectives, and activist rituals that engage questions of how humans use the land and produce food—this book lays out a... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Theatres of Compost
1. “some of the food is twigs”: A Compost Dramaturgy
2: In Lak Ech: Compost Performance in the Chicano Movement
3: Wild Home: Notes on Wild Theatre
4: Seeds of Resistance: Toward an Interspecies Collectivity
Epilogue: Performance All the Way Down
Index
Biography
Abby Schroering (she/her) earned a doctorate in Theatre and Performance from Columbia University in the City of New York. Her writingcan be found in Modern Drama, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, American Theatre Magazine, Public Books, and elsewhere.
