First published in 2007, this book asks what are the challenges to
theatre and the purposes of performance in an ecologically
threatened world? Is there a future for theatre as an ethically and
politically alert art through environmental action? How might
ecological understandings refigure the natural virtues of theatre
and performance? Theatre Ecology gets to grips with such questions
by investigating an eclectic cosmopolitan sample of environments
and performance events, in theatres and beyond. It proposes that
performance is a peculiarly twenty-first century addiction at the
root global warming. Encountering this prospect head-on, it
searches for pathological hope in historical theatre at the end of
its tether and rumbles the contemporary paradigm of performance for
signs of eco-sanity. Recognising the future is always before its
time, Theatre Ecology is a paradoxical tract for survival past the
final ecological era.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2009 |
First published: |
July 2009 |
Authors: |
Baz Kershaw
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
372 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-12074-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Theatre, drama >
General
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LSN: |
0-521-12074-8 |
Barcode: |
9780521120746 |
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