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Towards an Ecocritical Theatre - Playing the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
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Towards an Ecocritical Theatre - Playing the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
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Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre
through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism. It assesses
how Anthropocene thinking engages different modes of theatrical
representation, as well as how the theatrical apparatus can rise to
the representational challenges of changing interactions between
humans and the nonhuman world. To explore these problems, the book
investigates international Anglophone plays and performances by
Caryl Churchill, Stephen Sewell, Andrew Bovell, E.M. Lewis, Chantal
Bilodeau, Jordan Hall, and Miwa Matreyek, who have taken
significant steps towards re-orienting theatre from its traditional
focus on humans to an ecocritical attention to nonhumans and the
environment in the Anthropocene. Their theatrical works show how an
engagement with the problem of scale disrupts the humanist bias of
theatre, provoking new modes of theatrical inquiry that envision a
scale beyond the human and realign our ecological culture, art, and
intimacy with geological time. Moreover, the plays and performances
studied here, through their liveness, immediacy, physicality, and
communality, examine such scalar shifts via the problem of agency
in order to give expression to the stories of nonhuman actants.
These theatrical works provoke reflections on the flourishing of
multispecies responsibilities and sensitivities in aesthetic and
ethical terms, providing a platform for research in the
environmental humanities through imaginative conversations on the
world's iterative performativity in which all bodies, human and
nonhuman, are cast horizontally as agential forces on the
theatrical world stage. This book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of theatre studies, environmental humanities,
and ecocritical studies.
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