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: |
December 2007 |
First published: |
2007 |
Authors: |
Baz Kershaw
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Dimensions: |
234 x 161 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
370 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-87716-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Theatre, drama >
General
|
LSN: |
0-521-87716-4 |
Barcode: |
9780521877169 |
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