Theatre Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre Ecology write by Baz Kershaw. This book was released on 2007-12-13. Theatre Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study into the relationships between performance, theatre and environmental ecology.
Earth Matters on Stage
Earth Matters on Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earth Matters on Stage write by Theresa J. May. This book was released on 2020-08-09. Earth Matters on Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century as it argues for theater’s potential power in the age of climate change. Using cultural and environmental history, seven chapters interrogate key moments in American theater and American environmentalism over the course of the twentieth century in the United States. It focuses, in particular, on how drama has represented environmental injustice and how inequality has become part of the American environmental landscape. As the first book-length ecocritical study of American theater, Earth Matters examines both familiar dramas and lesser-known grassroots plays in an effort to show that theater can be a powerful force for social change from frontier drama of the late nineteenth century to the eco-theater movement. This book argues that theater has always and already been part of the history of environmental ideas and action in the United States. Earth Matters also maps the rise of an ecocritical thought and eco-theater practice – what the author calls ecodramaturgy – showing how theater has informed environmental perceptions and policies. Through key plays and productions, it identifies strategies for artists who want their work to contribute to cultural transformation in the face of climate change.
Readings in Performance and Ecology
Readings in Performance and Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Readings in Performance and Ecology write by Wendy Arons. This book was released on 2016-04-30. Readings in Performance and Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Top scholars explore how familiar and new works of performance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the natural world and how it helps us understand the way we are connected to the land.
Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?
Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? write by Carl Lavery. This book was released on 2019-12-18. Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 on ecology and environment, there are real signs that theatre and performance scholars are beginning to make their own contribution to the Environmental Humanities. But if theatre critics are engaged in new forms of ecocritical analysis, it is worth posing a pertinent question from the outset: namely, what can theatre do ecologically? In this book, leading researchers and practitioners seek to answer that question from a number of perspectives and with diverse methodologies. Topics include: reflections on rehearsal processes, scores for performance, site-based interventions, ideas of conflict, investigations of temporality and time ecology, ecospectating, and the experience of disappointment. Taken together, these essays make an important intervention in the emergent (inter)disciplines of the Environmental Humanities and further our understanding of the ecological potential of Theatre and Performance in ways that are cautious, tentative but also generative. This book was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.
Ecology and Environment in European Drama
Ecology and Environment in European Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecology and Environment in European Drama write by Downing Cless. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Ecology and Environment in European Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force. Though theater predominantly explores human and cultural themes, these plays fully display the power of the other-than-human world and its endangerment during the history of Europe. While offering a broad overview, the book features extensive case studies of several playwrights, plays, and eco-theater productions: Aristophanes’ The Birds, Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest, and Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot. In each case, Cless connects nature in the play to nature in the life of the playwright based on biographical research into the understanding of natural philosophy and awareness of the immediate environment that influenced the specific play. The book is one of the first of its kind in a growing field of ecocriticism and emerging eco-studies of theater.
