Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Theatre has engaged with science since its beginnings in Ancient Greece. The intersection of the two disciplines has been the focus of increasing interest to scholars and students. The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science gives readers a sense of this dynamic field, using detailed analyses of plays and performances covering a wide range of areas including climate change and the environment, technology, animal studies, disease and contagion, mental health, and performance and cognition. Identifying historical tendencies that have dominated theatre's relationship with science, the volume traces many periods of theatre history across a wide geographical range. It follows a simple and clear structure of pairs and triads of chapters that cluster around a given theme so that readers get a clear sense of the current debates and perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108759632
• Artikelnr.: 66180687

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.