The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science

Herausgeber: Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten E

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion is for undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and theatre makers as well as general readers interested in the relationship between theatre and science. It covers topics such as climate change drama, theatre technology, animal studies, and performance and cognition, as well as many periods of theatre history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781108700986
• ISBN-10: 1108700985
• Artikelnr.: 60201016

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr; 1. Objectivity & observation Dan
Rebellato; 2. Staging consciousness: Metaphor as thought-experiment in
McBurney's staging of beware of pity Jane Goodall; 3. The
experimental/experiential stage: extreme states of being of and knowing in
the theatre Carina Bartleet; 4. A cave, a skull, and a little piece of
grit: theatre in the anthropocene Carl Lavery; 5. The play at the end of
the world: deke weaver's unreliable bestiary and the theatre of extinction
Una Chaudhuri and Joshua Williams; 6. Bodies of knowledge: theatre and
medical science Stanton B. Garner, Jr; 7. Pathogenic performativity: urban
contagion and fascist affect Fintan Walsh; 8. Theatres of mental health
Jonathan Venn; 9. Devised theatre and the performance of science Mike
Vanden Heuvel; 10. Theatre and science as social intervention Michael
Carklin; 11. Acting and science Rhonda Blair; 12. Staging cognition: how
performance shows us how we think Amy Cook; 13. Clouds and meteors:
recreating wonder on the early modern stage Frédérique Aït-Touati; 14. The
stage hand's lament": scenography, technology, and off-stage Labour Kirsten
E. Shepherd-Barr.