The Environment on Stage
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The Environment on Stage

Scenery or Shapeshifter?

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The Environment on Stage

Scenery or Shapeshifter?

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The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter? investigates a pertinent voice of theatrical performance within the production and reception of ecotheatre. Theatre ecologies, unavoidably enmeshed in the environment, describe the system of sometimes perverse feedback loops running through theatrical events, productions, performances and installations. This volume applies an ecoaware spectatorial lens to explore live theatre as a living ecosystem in a literal sense. The vibrant chemistry between production and reception, and the spiralling ideas and emotions this generates in some conditions, are unavoidably driven by flows of matter and energy, thus, by the natural environment, even when human perspectives seem to dominate.

The Environment on Stage is an intentionally eclectic mix of observation, close reading and qualitative research, undertaken with the aim of exploring ecocritical ideas embedded in ecotheatre from a range of perspectives. Individual chapters identify productions, performances and installations in which the environment is palpably present on stage, as it is in natural disasters such as floods, storms, famine, conflict and climate change. These themes and others are explored in the context of site-specificity, subversive spectators, frugal modes of narrative, the shifting 'stuff' of theatre productions, and imaginative substitutions. Ecotheatre is nothing less than vibrant matter that lets the environment speak for itself

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9781000650655
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction: Setting the Ecotheatrical Scene
  12. 1 The Environment on Stage in Production and Reception
  13. 2 Natural Disasters as Ecotheatrical Shapeshifters
  14. 3 An Ecotheatrical Perspective on Dearth in Performance
  15. 4 The Environment in Performance: Stage Invasion or Deus ex Machina?
  16. 5 Environmental Theatre, Site Specificity and Theatre Ecologies
  17. 6 Frugal Modes of Storytelling as Ecotheatre
  18. 7 Bicycles on Stage – Shapeshifters or Scenery?
  19. 8 Reperforming Reception – The Skriker in 1994 and 2015
  20. 9 On the Importance of Intrinsic Environmental Responsibility
  21. Index