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The Environment on Stage - Scenery or Shapeshifter? (Paperback)
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The Environment on Stage - Scenery or Shapeshifter? (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
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The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter? investigates a
pertinent voice of theatrical performance within the production and
reception of ecotheatre. Theatre ecologies, unavoidably enmeshed in
the environment, describe the system of sometimes perverse feedback
loops running through theatrical events, productions, performances
and installations. This volume applies an ecoaware spectatorial
lens to explore live theatre as a living ecosystem in a literal
sense. The vibrant chemistry between production and reception, and
the spiralling ideas and emotions this generates in some
conditions, are unavoidably driven by flows of matter and energy,
thus, by the natural environment, even when human perspectives seem
to dominate. The Environment on Stage is an intentionally eclectic
mix of observation, close reading and qualitative research,
undertaken with the aim of exploring ecocritical ideas embedded in
ecotheatre from a range of perspectives. Individual chapters
identify productions, performances and installations in which the
environment is palpably present on stage, as it is in natural
disasters such as floods, storms, famine, conflict and climate
change. These themes and others are explored in the context of
site-specificity, subversive spectators, frugal modes of narrative,
the shifting 'stuff' of theatre productions, and imaginative
substitutions. Ecotheatre is nothing less than vibrant matter that
lets the environment speak for itself
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