Screen LibraryReadings in performance and ecology
Identifies, illuminates, and complicates ecocritical concerns as they relate to theatre and performance.
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137011695 |
| Summary: |
Identifies, illuminates, and complicates ecocritical concerns as they relate to theatre and performance. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230337282, 2012. |
| Carrier Form: | 256 p. |
| ISBN: |
9780230337282 9781137011695 : 1137011696 : |
| CLC: | J8 |
| Contents: | Editors' Introduction - Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May * PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AND/IN PERFORMANCE * Theatre and the Environmental Crisis of the 1930s - Barry Witham * Re-Setting the Margins: Canadian Theatre & the Eco-politics of Place - Nelson Gray * Natural Disaster, Cultural Memory: Montserrat Adrift in the Black and Green Atlantic - Katie Gough * CND and the Alternative Institution: British Theatres and the Anti-Nuclear Movement as a Locus of Eco-Conscious Theatre in Thatcher's Britain - Sara Freeman * PART II: ANIMALS AND/IN PERFORMANCE * Un-Performing Zoo-geopathology: Interspecies Landscapes - Una Chaudhuri * Dancing with Monkeys? On Science and Performance Ecology - Baz Kershaw * Everything a la Giraffe": Science, performance, and a spectacular body in 19th century Vienna - Derek Barton * Other Others: Dramatis Animalia in Alternative American Drama - Robert Baker-White * PART III: EMBODIED ECO-PERFORMANCE * Body as Place: A Somatic Guide To Re-Indigenization - Nalla Walla * Still Dances: Anna Halprin's Improvisations with Nature - Arden Thomas * Little Red Riding Hood Takes An Audio Walk In The Woods: Toward A Sound Ecology - Cornelia Hoogland * Bikes, Choices, Action! Performances Of Sustainability By A Traveling Theatre Group - Meg O'Shea * Eco-Activism as Theatre and Performance - Sarah Standing * Walking The Talk: The City as Auditory Ecology - Martin Welton * PART IV: CASE STUDIES IN GREEN THEATRE * Eco-directing Canonical Plays - Downing Cless * The Making of "Green Piece" - Anne Justine D'Zmura * The Labor of Greening Love's Labour's Lost: A Case Study - Justin A. Miller. |