Baz Kershaw (University of Warwick)

Theatre Ecology

Environments and Performance Events

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What are the challenges to theatre and the purposes of performance in an ecologically threatened world? How might ecological understandings refigure the interactions of theatre and performance? Theatre Ecology gets to grips with such questions by investigating an eclectic international sample of environments and performance events, in theatres and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780521120746
• ISBN-10: 0521120748
• Artikelnr.: 27065232

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Prologue. A kind of storm: 1. An introduction to theatre and performance ecology
Part I. In the Present: Qualities of Theatre and Performance: Preamble
2. Performance contexts: theatre at the end of its tether
3. Performance archives: catching the Northern sublime
4. Performance limits: steps to a paradoxology
Part II. Of the Past: Histories of Theatre and Performance: Preamble
5. Economies of performance: theatre against democracy
6. Audiences of performance: declining participation
7. Spectacles of performance: excesses of power
Part III. For the Future: Ecologies of Theatre and Performance: Preamble
8. Performance and black holes: on eco-activism
9. Performance and energy: on free radicals
10. Performance and biospheres: on hermetic theatre
Epilogue: listen up for the cracks
Appendix. A chronology of chapter sources
Bibliography, multimedia, websites
Index.